James Milner Quotes

I've always liked big challenges in football and playing against the best.

The thing about kicking is, it's not as competitive as other positions, but I feel like I am a competitor.

Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

I've always wanted to be a top footballer since I was young.

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

I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career.

Never played football, but I'm an athlete. I'm a competitor.

It was my dream to have an opportunity to become a professional player.

Football was a dream, an opportunity once taken from me - something I thought I'd never be able to do again.

I became a professional footballer because I love football.

If I'd had my way, I would still have been playing NRL.

When I started playing cricket, I knew that my physique is not at all like a typical fast bowler. My body language is also different, and I am not aggressive by nature; thus, my focus was always on my skills.

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

Pele has all the qualities and characteristic that a football player has to have.

I know what I do, I know I can play football, and I know I can talk about it.

When I was a little child, I watched every game in the Champions League, and now I can play it for myself.

Everything is possible in football.

I focus on playing football, and there are many battles you have to think about and which must be won.

I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.

I think the thing about that was I was always willing to work; I was not the fastest or biggest player but I was determined to be the best football player I could be on the football field and I think I was able to accomplish that through hard work.

Norm Smith personally came and signed me up to the Melbourne Football Club. The fact that I then played cricket for Melbourne Cricket Club - the footy club didn't like it that much.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.