#footballer

I run an academy in Spain for young footballers who are released by their clubs and who, in my opinion, deserve a second chance. It is a rewarding job for me, but one that also reveals many of the faults in the English game. ↗

— Glenn Hoddle

#also #chance #clubs #deserve #english

Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support. ↗

— Anna Friel

#background #bit #footballers #i #i think

I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see if we're going to buy him. ↗

— Gary Lineker

#check #footballer #go #going #him

There would be no debate about who was the best footballer the world had ever seen - me or Pele. Everyone would say me. ↗

— Diego Maradona

#best #debate #ever #everyone #footballer

I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s. ↗

— Dylan Moran

#actually #division #famous #footballer #fourth

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

— Jamie Redknapp

#i #job #known #want

If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#celebrity #celebrity culture #culture #footballers #look

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

— Gordon Strachan

#bad #bad press #deserve #footballers #get

I take compliments and I take constructive criticism. Not everyone loves you. It's the way you react as a footballer. I use it all to make me play better. ↗

— Timothy F. Cahill

#compliments #constructive #constructive criticism #criticism #everyone

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

— Craig Johnston

#charlton #footballer #i #jack #now