Michael Owen Quotes

I've always just loved to play football, even if it was street football, like razzle-dazzle.

When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement.

I love scoring goals for England and playing for England. That's one of the reasons I didn't retire - I love playing for my country.

Football became my life at five or six. The earliest memory I have is of playing in my first boots, a pair of black and white Alan Balls. It was 1970, four years after the World Cup, and I scored three goals at school.

I want to play for Arsenal. When you see football all around the world, you see very few teams who play the way that we play. I just enjoy it. I feel it is my home now.

Football, at the end of the day, is a little kids' game that grown men get to play. I'm just privileged to get to do that every day.

I prefer beating Real Madrid to beating Manchester City!

I admire Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool - these are the teams that are always there fighting.

I was always a striker ever since I was a little boy. I always wanted to put the ball in the net and have the feeling of scoring a goal.

Not playing for Liverpool would hurt me more than not playing for England.

The atmosphere in England is absolutely amazing and I'd be delighted to play in the Premier League.

I want to play in England.

For me, there is only one club in England, and that's Liverpool.

To play for Arsenal will be the best day of my life and I will do anything to play for that team.

I like the Premier League; the style of play, I like it.

It's always in the back of your mind that you want to stay at United, and you want to play for United.

I watched the Premier League regularly in Germany. It is the most famous league in the world, and I have always enjoyed it.

I always thought about working in England because of the kind of football, the intensity of football. Liverpool was first choice.

City came in strongly for me, put their cards on the table, and what I have found out since is that every game in England is a privilege - the atmosphere, the fans, the interest that surrounds it. Every time I go out on the pitch, I know I've made the right decision.

I love watching English football. It's the league I most enjoy.

I have watched the Premier League for a long time. There is so much quality, and it is such an exciting league. Of course, it is nice to think I might play in it.

Playing for England is a bonus, but playing for Liverpool is what I want to do.

I love the Premier League. I absolutely love Premier League games.

I just want to play football. I love the game. I love everything about it.

I love to work in football, so for me it's not work. I'm not here first in the morning and last in the evening because I think I have to prove I'm busy or working hard. When you want to do something extraordinary you have to be like a freak and to be something like a workaholic.