Timothy F. Cahill Quotes

Asian football is the future of football.

The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.

Clubs in other countries can step up, and we can kick on with women's football even more.

I can see that the UAE is growing a lot as a football country, and there is plenty of opportunity to keep going and improve.

Europe is leading the world in the sport of football. I want to utilize my experience from Europe to support the development of football in Asian countries.

If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.

The World Cup must remain the number one competition, because it is our only source of money and, with that money, we can develop football in the whole world.

India should go at their own pace and not compete with anyone. They have a league system in place and a huge fan base, but the thing they need the most is a good structure. They need to create a good footprint for football in the future because they have the numbers, but they need to improve the quality of the game.

Frankly, I loved playing there. The Americans are incomparable for the sport's business, and they're beginning to truly love football.

I'm facing new challenges in China, the league here is developing and I try to help Chinese football develop here and around the world.

At my first clubs, TOP Oss and NEC, I was the one everybody looked at and talked about, but at Feyenoord, I was one of many good players.

I've grown up having faith in youth because without that there is no future in football.

I wish I could help in a more substantial way, the football in India in a more global, national way.

I'd always thought Australia was a rugby country, but football is really developing here, and Juve are extremely popular.

It's no secret that I think that MLS is a top five, top six league in the world but they're not the top league.

I think it is so beneficial to English and British football when youngsters see different cultures and environments.

Democrats have stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Israel since its founding.

If I had the opportunity, I will ask every Nigerian kid to start his career in Germany. The structure they have in the Bundesliga is far from what is obtainable in other leagues.

As players, we need to try to inspire young girls to keep playing because, at grass roots, we need more girls playing football.

The first series of 'McMafia' is very Alex Godman-centric and could continue to be, but we haven't even begun to explore the Middle East or Africa or even South America in detail. One of our ambitions would be to drop into some of these other places and, by doing so, bring the audience into a world that they wouldn't necessarily have been in.

When I went to England the first time, everyone asked the same question - how come you're so big in Europe and nothing in England. And I told them that all the continents, they're coming, one by one.

You can't obviously predict the future, but I am a fan of the United States and soccer over there continues to grow.

Football in Japan is highly looked upon, even more than in the rest of Asia.

My father has played at Celtic before. He has told me it is really intense, and it is good to grow as a footballer by playing for this club.

People who have followed my career still call me Ron, and that's OK; most of the young kids call me Metta, and then everyone in China calls me Panda. In the Middle East, they call me World Peace.