Remember I've seen a video tape of a Scotland-England match and I've seen him miss a chance from five yards. It was against England and he couldn't score. So what does that say?
So it would be a good thing for Chinese parents to instill enthusiasm among their kids for football. It's a great game, not only regarding the emotions behind it, but it's also a game for young people to gain experience of working in a bigger group and work to achieve goals.
China is a sleeping giant if you just take a look at their experience regarding all kinds of sport, not football though, and the number of people that love sports. Chinese are eager to hit new shores and they are ambitious.
I think in China, they know you have to have a solid nationwide plan. It does not help to have a football hotspot in the north or the south.
China needs a table-tennis-like solidity in football.
Progressing to where you can play a big role in football is nothing you can achieve in just two years. It will at least take five, six, well more likely seven years. A once-in-a-life-time success does not help you, constant quality is what you have to go for.
China has great potentials; the people are hard-working and focused. But they have to close the gap as far as the pace of the game is concerned. Football in the future will get faster and faster.
You need players that stand for emotion in football. Football today is a game for television.
First of all, it would be great for world football to have a competitive Chinese team as China traditionally has deep relation to sports in general.
I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team. When he was well into his eighties a friend found him in his office on Sunday, and asked him why, at his age, he was working on a Sunday. His response, 'It’s only work if there’s someplace else you’d rather be.'
I have so much respect for [Bernie Ecclestone] for what he did with this sport. He did so much more than people in tennis or football.
The prime minister of Israel is welcome to speak in the United States, obviously. But we don't want to see this turned into some great political football
I have a great family. I can call them and they don't want to talk just football They want to find out how my day went outside of football.
Basketball was always my first love, but once I had a good year as a senior, I figured the next step was to play college football.
I hope to get out before they start football next year.
I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk.
England are looking better value for 0-0.
He's marked his entrance with an error of some momentum
And Watford acknowledge the support of the crowd, indeed of the crowd that supported them
They've maintained their unbeaten record between the legs.
A peep, peep, peep, another peep, and that's it.
Chess is a very positive way to exercise your mind. It makes you look at the whole picture...what are your options and what is the best thing to do? In football, you are mostly reacting from a defensive point of view...but you always want to be counterattacking...a similarity with chess strategy. Chess and offensive football are quite similar; you sacrifice something now to get something back later.
Games were moved to New Year's Eve as part of a plan by college football executives where they want to create a tradition of watching football on New Year's Eve.
I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.
I don't understand shopping, it doesn't make any sense to me. As guys, we decide we want something and then we go out and buy it. Women go to the store having no idea what they're going to buy, or what they're even doing, it's like a whole different sport. It's like going to a football game to maybe watch a game. I don't get it.
