Chris Borland Quotes

I'm loyal to Portland. I want to play my whole career here, but at any moment, they can decide we want somebody else.

In all my years of being with Pittsburgh, I never encountered a player taking a contract dispute into the season and letting that dispute affect the way he played.

It's no secret I was willing to commit to Minnesota for five years. I'm very happy with my contract. I'd love to be in Minnesota. But like anybody else, I want to win.

You always think you're one of those players who will be in one place the whole time, one of those guys they'll never let leave because you play hurt, do what it takes. But it's a different age. A lot of coaches, they like having younger guys.

As a professional athlete, the small print says there could be a trade at some point in your career. Sometimes expected, sometimes not. You have to be able to handle that.

I've seen players in the past who wanted to stay with their team, and it didn't work out.

I don't want to get to a point where I consider the national team a club team.

Liverpool have always shown a great warmth to me, so when they came to me with a proposal, I did not need to think twice to renew the contract. I have always been looked after very well by this football club, and I am very happy at this football club, so I didn't even have to think about it.

I don't want to be jumping from team to team.

I just want to play for a team that wants me. So whichever team wants me I'll play for.

I would love to finish my career at Real Madrid. But I would not cause a scene if, one day, a coach were to come along and decide he doesn't need me. Only then would I look elsewhere. And I repeat: Real is my priority.

You cannot be mad at somebody for wanting to play for another team.

If I hadn't had the guarantee of playing, I would have asked to leave Roma.

The appreciation between Bayern and I has always been there, from both sides. I know what I have at this club, and I always say that.

Leaving Impact was a very difficult decision, as I had six months left on a very lucrative and talent-friendly contract. Anthem lived up to that contract and always treated me with the utmost respect as a businessman and a person.

Whenever you get traded out and you are playing for a winning team, it's always good.

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.

Clubs have always wanted to buy me during the summer but I have always stayed loyal because I wanted to stay at Arsenal.

I'd like to be a few years at Sevilla, I hope to find a family in this team.

It is very difficult to find a player who stays at the same club for the whole of their career.

I never agreed too much about players talking about former teammates when they go somewhere else. I've never been a fan of that.

I'm still a fanatical fan of Porto, and I always will be, but a footballer's career is short, and I have to make the most of all the opportunities that I get.

There's a lot of veteran players that, honestly, being comfortable where they play is more important. And that's just not me.

I'm not saying there's no pressure at Evergrande, there's pressure at Evergrande all the time. But I am myself and, no matter if I'm playing for Real Madrid or at the World Cup, I've never felt pressure.

Football players value job security and stability as much anybody else.