Football is like chess, only without the dice.

Football is a team sport, and there is no one individual who is bigger than the next person.

Look it, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.

You can be ruthless by playing football and one-touch football. Sometimes we get confused between desire and playing football. There is a fine line and sometimes we could pass the ball to each other a bit better. Football is a team effort and sometimes when you're not playing well together you need to go back to basics and play as a team.

In modern football all teams run and fight. Football needs to come back a little to be a game, if it is even coming back. If there is too much tactics, too much money, too much fight, maybe the people do not want to see it any more. Football is a game.

Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking the ball about, but is a species of fighting.

At times we forget that football is a team effort, a team game and not a solo show game. Sometimes we just don't respect the game. I love my game, but sometimes you need to please the people around you also, and pass the ball to them. At times during games we forget about team-mates in better positions while we try and force our way in, rather than pass to players in better positions around the box. That is something I'm thinking about more.

In football, if you are standing still, you're going backwards fast.

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

When you're on the field, play as if nothing else matters.

When you're off the field, remember that the game doesn't matter at all.

Football can be unforgiving sometimes.

When I meet a European, the first thing I say is, “I’d much rather watch football than football.” But I’m just teasing them, and they know I’d really rather watch football than football.

Football, bloody hell!

Is it really a sport if you have all the equipment and your opponent doesn't know a game is going on?