Radamel Falcao Quotes

On Conte's first day, I told him that I wanted to join Atletico, and he was upset with me and didn't even look at me. Luckily, I started to score goals.

When you sign for a new club, you just want to play, and when injury stops you, it is frustrating.

It was tough to go to Norwich and not play after doing well at Coventry.

It's been so difficult to go from playing every game then get to the seniors and not be given a chance. It's really difficult mentally. There's only so long you just enjoy training with top players.

I naively thought I would quit television writing, move up to Seattle, my novel would come out, and then I'd have a novel writing career, and so I found myself really stuck in this very poisonous self-pitying state and felt like I'd never write again. And I blamed Seattle for that.

Obviously my last two years in the NFL were not much fun at all.

It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin.

Am I ever going to be able to play football again? What's going on with my career? I was just thinking things like that. You've got tears going down your eyes. You've got your trainers right there and my parents right there. I was just thinking, "Is this it?" I didn't know what a knee injury was. I'd never felt pain like that.

There's no reason for me to go into a big dissertation about why I'm not getting the calls. The refs have to do their jobs as well. I even mentioned it in training camp to the refs when we had our little meeting.

For sure, when you are being beaten by your team-mate, it hurts.

I'm the classic case of a great player on a bad team, and it stinks.

People don't understand how hard it is to be injured, not to be part of the team but to watch from the side.

I didn't pick up a ball for three years. It was very depressing for me because, as a professional, it's very difficult when you can't use the facilities, play cricket; you can't even touch the ball, so what are you going to do then?

It's hard because, throughout your whole career, you're known as the top player, the best on your team, you're playing the most minutes, and then you might not get in the game. You don't know when you're going to get in the game.

I have no real desire to play Test cricket, and the reason I lost this desire was because I was not selected consistently for Test matches.

Probably the biggest thing for me was my Wrestlemania match getting cut; I don't think I ever really mentally recovered from that.

It's never nice to sit on the bench. Everybody knows it is not what you want as a professional footballer but it's about responding and coming back.

I had no interest in continuing with Real Madrid in the way that we were working.

As top players, we earn a lot of money, but sometimes we pay a hefty price with our health. I would give away all the money to be healthy again, to be able to do my job. To do what I love: to play football.

When Manchester City came for me it was the best choice to come here.

When people think Arsenal had a bad season and we've had a good one, yet they still finish above us, it hurts.

As I said, when I played at Chelsea I give always my best to help the team but now Manchester United is my club and I will try to win there.

A quarterback has to trust the quarterback coach. And the quarterback coach has to trust him.

Pogba's a massive player. I know him a little bit. He's unbelievable. He took a red card, and that's the way it goes: you have injuries and suspensions.

I still remember not scoring against United. You always want to score in the big games.