Joe Flacco Quotes

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

I want to be an NBA all-star and help my team win. That's what it's all about, is winning. I'm a competitor... People said a lot about me being selfish and stuff like that. Getting into the league, I can't wait to shut that down. I'm a guy who wants to play and to win and love my teammates.

When I was 14, I told all the girls in my class that I wanted to be the first woman prime minister. Someone else beat me to that!

One of the things about football is, it's a relationship business.

Especially young guys, it's always fun to see young guys come in and have that same enthusiasm about playing a certain way and fitting into a certain role and going after guys, trying to get them off their game.

I want to play for a big club.

My managerial ambitions were the same as I had as a player: to become as good as possible and to join the big teams in the big leagues.

We can do what we love to do and also to play for Liverpool - they are such a big club. You need to enjoy it but the pressure will always be there.

I think it is inevitable that I'll be coaching or be a GM.

My preparation doesn't change from being a backup to a starter.

You come in on practice squad and you know you're not going to play in the game, you know you're not going to get any reps. It's frustrating... you don't want to just practice your whole life. You want to practice to play.

I want to be a starter in this league.

I suppose I should have realised that the very fact I was still playing for United at 38 years old was a sign that there was not enough pressure on us senior players from those coming into the side.

I understand how hard every guy in this NFL works, especially at the position, especially at the quarterback position.

I want to play for Chelsea. I hope I do get that chance, and I think I can compete.

It's been a dream of mine to become a head coach in the NFL.

If I wasn't aiming to break into the Arsenal first team, that wouldn't be the correct mindset.

Any competitor would be frustrated in that moment... but it certainly made sense what Coach Kubiak did for the playoff run. I got replaced by Peyton Manning... I think we all know who is going to play in the game.

When you're a young lad in a team like Arsenal, you feel like, of course, you deserve to be at the club... but you're on the periphery, and there are world-class players and more experienced players around you.

I know everybody wants to make it to the NFL, but it doesn't happen like that.

That was how I felt at non-league. I never looked at it then and said, 'I want to be a Premier League manager one day'. I just wanted to do a good job and see where it could take me.

I know I am coming to a big club with a very good goalkeeper. City already have a great goalkeeper in Joe Hart, but I will try and compete for the No. 1 spot.

We spent our whole married life in the ultra-competitive world of professional football, Lauren and I had always tried to view it through God's eyes. As much fun as it was to be winning, we tried not to get caught up in it. We knew that our family life and our faith walk were more important.

If the Presidents Club had a seal, around the ring would be three words: cooperation, competition, and consolation. On the one hand, the presidents have powerful motives—personal and patriotic—to help one another succeed and comfort one another when they fail. But at the same time they all compete for history’s blessing.

Every man in the game, from the minors on up, is not only fighting against the other side, but he's trying to hold onto his own job against those on his own bench who'd love to take it away. Why deny this? Why minimize it? Why not boldly admit it?