Ander Herrera Quotes

Soccer was the first sport that my parents put me in, and ultimately, all the parents kind of came over to my mom and were, 'We think Channing would be better at football.... We love him, he's really great, but he's kind of hurting our children.' I was just a little wild.

Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes.

Many sports, not just football, have kind of the macho meathead mentality where innovation is almost frowned upon.

In the dressing room, I always put on my right shoe first. Same thing for my right wristband.

Many stories come from the dressing room that one doesn't speak when you are playing but can do once retired.

In every dressing room in the world, players say things to each other after a defeat, and then it gets forgotten.

In the basketball world, guys like me, we tend to make bad decisions.

I was a vocal presence in the dressing room as an 18-year-old at Leeds.

Moral victories are really more for coaches than players.

I'm not big on rookie hazing. I didn't wanna be hazed as a rookie, so I definitely didn't want to do it to others.

Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.

Ballplayers are a superstitious breed, nobody more than I, and while you are winning you'd murder anybody who tried to change your sweatshirt, let alone your uniform.

I listen to my iPod as I walk on. If I'm winning I'll listen to the same song, that's like a good luck thing - usually The Black Eyed Peas' Let's Get It Started.

If you play well on the field, everything will take care of itself.

We wept, Brooklyn was a lovely place to hit. If you got a ball in the air, you had a chance to get it out. When they tore down Ebbets Field, they tore down a little piece of me.

I don't think I've ever held a racket in my hand ... There's got to be somebody in the US who isn't trying to play tennis and stinking up the court.

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.

The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games...the losing team can only win one out of three.

Italy cannot beat you but you can lose to Italy.

Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.

I'm superstitious a little bit.

A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.

Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology. (8)