Footballer Quotes

Had I not become a footballer, I think I would have been... a virgin.

I wouldn’t swap Paul Scholes for anybody. He is quite simply the most complete footballer I have ever played with. He is the best.

If I wasn't a footballer, I would be a virgin

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

There is no rule that says a footballer needs to be 'this high' and 'this wide.'

I'm a footballer, that's my job and that's all I want to be known for.

I don't want to be modelling G-strings. It's not that good for my image – I'm a footballer not a tart

There is pressure every day as a footballer.

I don't recognize myself in the players I see today. There's only one who excites me, and that is Thierry Henry. He's not just a great footballer, he's a showman, an entertainer.

It's impossible to be more of a footballer than Messi.

Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches.

I am going to continue and bring this club forward. I am Paul Gascoigne the footballer.

He's one of those footballers whose brains are in his head.

If you cut me in half, I'm a footballer.

The street is the best way to become a good footballer.

Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.

Footballers are going on strike? When can they start?

I got injured when I was a kid, and it prevented me from becoming a footballer.

People talk about footballers and they get a bad press when not all of them deserve it.

Footballers are slaves. I know this from the personal experience of being a footballer.

Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer.

The money footballers earn today is incredulous

As footballers, we have time on our hands. Yes, we work very hard but we also have spare afternoons.