If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.
[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably Tory, slavishly conformist Beckham. The Reds are no longer the Bolsheviks. Nobody serious about political change can shirk the fact that the game has to be abolished. And any political outfit that tried it on would have about as much chance of power as the chief executive of BP has in taking over from Oprah Winfrey.
Football is like life and I know life.
My dad's method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football, tennis, golf, cricket but I loved my snooker.
It had to go in, but it didn't.
The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them.
I sent my Christmas wishes to him, but he didn't answer. He's the world's best coach, but as a man he still has to learn manners and respect.
I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.
Cause there's only one reason for doing anything that you set out to do. If you don't want to be the best, then there's no reason going out and trying to accomplish anything.
I've always felt like the most improvement you can make is from year 1 to year 2, much like a college freshman who the most improvement he can make in an entire one year of college football is going from year 1 freshman year to his sophomore year. Like a pro football player going from his rookie season to his second season. There's a window there that will never come again that you have a chance to making your biggest strides.
To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played the game.
Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.
I don't understand referees. It appears like some players can't even be touched, but in my case, everyone can hit me as hard as they can.
Every team is beatable, you never know. The right moment, the right time, every team is beatable.
Life is good. Football is better.
The crowds at West Ham haven't been rewarded by results, but they keep turning up because of the good football they see. Other clubs will suffer from the old bugbear that results count more than anything. This has been the ruination of English soccer.
The referee was only five or seven yards away from that incident.
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
Football - it's not fun when you lose. That's a heartbreaking thing. But then there's a new week, and a new opportunity and I definitely get happier and happier as that new opportunity approaches. So 'win the next game,' that's my mindset.
Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to work hard, and that's it.
My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
Laddie, that man scored 200 goals in 270 matches - an incredible record - and he has won cup after cup as a manager. When he talks, pin back your ears.
I hated school . . . I freaking hated it. The fact is that it revolved around something you didn't have access to. If you weren't on the football team, if you were in the band, you were a leper. When people say those were the best years of our lives, I want to scream.
I have never seen anything like that before. He must have given his last three managers heart attacks. I like to see those sort of things - as long as they come from the other goalkeeper.
Football is all about winning things as a team but it's also important to pick up individual awards along the way.
