Terry Venables Quotes

As a goalkeeper, you always expect every team to give you nightmares.

We are Italy. It's only right that there is competition in attack, like there is in every other role.

I always say that I need competition, and I need competition every week, and in Spain, I was at an amazing club, but I had four matches a year: Barcelona v Real Madrid, Real Madrid v Barcelona, and after that, we'd win 4-0, 5-0, 4-1, 6-1.

There are no guarantees getting into an England squad: there's so many unbelievable players.

I played a lot of football, and I was a goalkeeper, but I didn't really like playing in goal.

I'm looking forward to playing my first match for Paris.

Football is constant pressure, from day to day. You need to know how to live with that.

When you play for Manchester United, the pressure's on every week.

At the end of the day, it's 11 men versus 11 on the pitch.

Everyone dreams of playing for Madrid, but we all know that it can be life or death.

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

It's true, pressure is something that goes with football nowadays. You need to accept it, and everything that it involves - the good and the bad.

I had true rivalries. Not only did I want to beat my opponent, but I didn't want to let him up, either. I had a rivalry with Mac, Lendl, Borg. Everybody knew there was tension between us, on court and off. That's what's really ingrained in my mind: 'This is real. This isn't a soft rivalry.' There were no hugs and kisses.

I even scored Monaco's goal too. Please, put it down as an own goal for me!

I would say Hope Solo is competitive.

There are not many times when I get nervous, but I do a little bit with penalties.

I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.

I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.

That's soccer. There are good games and others that aren't so much.

In football, the only game I know is the 90-minutes game. It's not mind games; I don't try to do that.

I like football very much. That's what I like. I play it quite well.

Anybody can miss a penalty.

Real Madrid is like Manchester United or Liverpool or Bayern Munich. There is so much history, and you need to play and win against that history. It's difficult to play against them because you fight against everything - the history, the players - but because of that, the motivation is always so high.

As a footballer, you want to play every game.

Brazil versus Argentina is always a great game, with great football and scoring chances.