English fans love spectacular players like Alan Shearer and that is exactly what United have now signed. He has magic in his boots. The first thing you notice about him is that he is incredibly quick and very, very powerful for such a young man. He has great, close control and his technique is excellent. He believes he can do anything with the ball, and that confidence makes him very special indeed.
My platform might be a little bigger than someone else's, but everyone has a purpose. For me, that purpose in my life right now is soccer. There's a cool, personal testimony that goes along with it.
Give a man a soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play soccer, he plays for a life time.
I'm a fan myself and I'm frustrated just as much as them when we get beat.
With a body like he has, I want him to be a bully. But he is too nice - he is perfect son-in-law material, but I don't want a team of son-in-laws.
My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal
A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.
To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.
If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.
If you eat caviar every day it's difficult to return to sausages.
Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.
I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game.... In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested.
I just hope he doesn't frighten the players 'cos they're frigtened enough right now.
The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.
Soccer was invented by man but perfected by women.
In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.
We've been beaten before but never defeated. Tonight we were defeated.
It was nothing personal: if it had been, I would have left him on so he could have suffered like everyone else.
Avoiding any of the tenets of amateurism, after all, certainly does not make you a good professional. Perhaps it is better to see fearless flair and professional steeliness as two ideas which must always coexist. One half of sport may be about harnessing human talent, but the other half depends on setting it free.
I have a few tricks and dribbles which I use a lot and when I am playing well, it is natural that they become easier. But the tricks I use are the ones that will hopefully benefit the team. What I do as an individual player is only important if it helps the team to win. That is the most important thing.
If it is the case that you need just a first 11 and three or four more players, then why did Christopher Columbus sail to India to discover America?
I'll admit, right away, that I am disappointed that we did not have a major trophy to show for our efforts. We were in four and we had a good side, but when you count second place as failure, then standards are becoming fantastically high. We never celebrate second place here.
The real revelation of a player's character is not in his social life but in how he plays. In my social life I can hide my real personality.
I don't like to see players tossed off needlessly.
