Michael Strahan Quotes

I respect Cristiano Ronaldo. He has had a superb career.

A great guy who is no longer in the league right now who is retired, Kyle Vanden Bosch, I learned a lot from him, and I owe him a lot for my success in the NFL.

I think people will say, 'You know what? That Shaun Alexander, he did all right when he was here.

I can't think of my life without Donna Reed. She has been such an enormous influence on my life.

I miss my coach. I love my coach. I miss Chuck Noll.

Encouraging the next generation is really where my heart is.

Beckham was a great inspiration to me growing up.

My dad's an old football player.

My brother was the one who really gave me the desire to follow in his footsteps. Also, it was really Ronaldinho and Ronaldo, the two Brazilian players, who also inspired me to a future in football.

It's fun to look over there and see a guy with as a great stature as John Elway. It's really cool that he went to one of my games.

I went to many games with my dad, Kevin, and looked up to the players. It's surreal that now young fans are looking up to me.

My favorite player growing up was Steve Nash, so that's been a guy I look up to and a guy I've gotten to talk to a few times, too.

In my early years, I wanted to be like Paul Gascoigne.

Billy Slater was one I used to see do extras after training and his catching technique was unreal, so I really looked up to him and followed.

Neymar is my favourite player. Getting to possibly play or train with him is going to be amazing.

Maradona is Maradona, that's indisputable, but he doesn't play anymore. He stopped playing a long time ago.

I knew it was my time to retire, when I saw Messi running past me.

I used to watch David Beckham on YouTube for ages when I was younger.

I was thinking it would be nice if I woke up and could play like Roberto Clemente.

It's not going to matter, but there's a part of me, a human part of me, that wants to be 60 years old, watching a Seahawks game, and they're talking about the days back when I was playing. I want to be able to feel that. I want to know what that feels like.

You can't have a greater person to emulate your game around than Scottie Pippen.

I wanted to be Ronaldinho. I studied him a lot. He was my hero.

Whether it's one play in the NFL or 1,000 plays in the NFL, your pads will come off eventually.

Growing up, John Terry was my obvious idol. I based my whole game on him.

I think playing for England is the pinnacle of every young English player's career.