Henrikh Mkhitaryan Quotes

These guys live and breathe football; they get something out of going to the training ground every day.

I knew I loved football before I even played it. Uh, but the first time I stepped out on the field playing for the Lakeshore Redskins, I knew that I loved this game. I knew that this was something I wanted to do. And I was only 6 years old, but I loved it.

First of all, we love football. We want to be on the football field as much as we can be. If we can be out there, it may be stupid, it may be dumb, call me dumb and stupid then, because that's what... I want to be on the football field.

My whole life has always been football and that only. Since I was six years old, I've only really thought about football. I used to watch it on TV, play video games, and so on. I just love football. Some people joke that I am too into it, but football just sums up my life.

I would say, 24/7, I am thinking about football.

For me, there's nothing that beats playing. When I'm not playing, I'll watch games on the television, watch stuff on You Tube, everything. I just live for football, love watching great players.

At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.

I revere football. I love the game. You don't have to wonder if I will miss it. I will absolutely miss it.

When I am not playing or training, I watch football all the time.

The passion the British people have for football - they live for football.

Living for football has saturated me.

Once you coach football in Texas, you fall in love with it.

I know how much football means in England. They love it. That's why it's great to be here.

You've just got to have it, man. Like, in this game of football, you can tell when you look at film who's more passionate about the game.

For someone like me, who loves this sport, Naples is a wonderful place. This is an incredible city where football comes first, followed by everything else. The fans live for football.

I don't see myself being able to stay away from football.

You get injuries, but football is something you have in your blood, in your heart.

I'm thinking about football all the time... This is what I love to do.

Everybody wants to portray the bad boy, the Johnny Manziel stuff, but I love the game of football. There's no doubt about that.

If you were ever to interview me after a football game or at a football game or around me during football season is totally different than when you catch me away from football.

You can go to the pictures or read a book, but football constantly comes back into your mind. It's not a job, it's a life. It takes up your time, thoughts and energy and it can damage relationships with those around you.

I wanted to be completely and totally entrenched, immersed in this football life, this culture all the way, so you don't even have a thought, an inkling, that my mind is somewhere else.

Football in Italy is like a wonderful sickness, because people are infected with this love for the sport from childhood to old age.

It was only when I went down south that I started to eat, sleep and breathe football.

I wasn't really interested in girls. Only football. I was just enjoying football all the time. There was a five-a-side next to the flat, and I used to play there all the time. It was all about football. I wanted to be a professional. That was my goal. I didn't want to be anything other than a footballer.