Samuel Eto'o Quotes

I'm really happy with my first season in the Premier League: I played 38 games and managed to stay injury-free.

As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.

When I watched the Premier League on the telly, I didn't expect it to be that hard. The opponents are all physically strong, real athletes. It wasn't like that in Germany. You must be prepared for it. But I prepared myself for it.

Every game is tough for me because the level of competition is so high in the Premier League, and every time you have to be at your best.

The intensity of the Premier League is incredible. The levels of fitness you have to reach just to survive in it is absurd.

I am coming to the part of my career where I want to play more football.

I am a professional footballer and as long as I'm able to make a contribution, I'll be doing all I can to stay at the top.

If I can force my winger backwards, it just comes down to who's fitter, and I like to think I'm pretty fit.

Physically I was not strong enough to play at Celtic and I know myself it was not my best time as a football player, for sure.

Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.

As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.

Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.

I played in the Premier League for Blackpool and earned the right to go to a club like Liverpool.

I have found a flat on Merseyside and am settling down here. If I can keep playing and get back to full match fitness, I know I have a lot to offer still.

I thought I did well for someone who has been out for 10 or 11 months. Then I was sub against Liverpool and tried to play for the guys and work on my fitness.

I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level.

I'd like to play as long as I still love the game, as long as I'm still feeling healthy and playing well so a team would want me to play for them.

That's why I play basketball. To play a lot of minutes, and to help my team win.

For professional athletes, I always think about it in these terms: the most difficult diva of women's soccer would be the easiest NBA player ever.

The Spanish and the English leagues are the strongest.

The Premier League and the World Cup are equally important to me.

I thank God for having played for four years in the best Barcelona team in history, but playing in the Premier League is also very important.

It's not easy, but I play with my body, and I can feel how important it is to get 100 percent fit to play. This is an important thing to play in the Premier League.

The double sessions are tough. The manager wants us to get fit, wants us to work hard. And that's because the Premier League is so tough. We need it. Something we have to do.