Chris Smalling Quotes

But you can never take anything for granted in the FA Cup, because an upset is always only just around the corner, and I have experienced those too.

The FA Cup is very important.

This is why cup finals are so special because on the day anyone can beat anyone. That's what it's all about and that's why for me the FA Cup and the Carling Cup are the best cups in the world. That's the beauty of the cup.

The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion.

The Leicester story is great for the game in England. It's great for the appreciation of the Premier League.

At Euro 2004 - my first as a player - Greece won the title. A team nobody thought could win it.

The FA Cup means a lot. There is a real passion here for the competition which you don't get elsewhere. It's a love affair. It's part and parcel of living up here. People might think I'm daft, but I'm not wrong; I'd rather win the Cup than the League.

It's nice when little teams win.

The more the technocrats programme it down to the smallest detail, the more the powerful manipulate it, football continues to be the art of the unforeseeable. When you least expect it, the impossible occurs: the dwarf teaches the giant a lesson, and a scraggy, bow-legged black man makes an athlete sculpted in Greece look ridiculous.

I know I'm always rooting for the underdog in a fight, and I love to be constantly surprised.

There's nothing better than a team that comes out of nowhere and finds themselves in the World Series.

Why can't we be Greece in the Euros? Why can't we be Leicester in the Premier League? Tell me why not.

The FA Cup is a great competition and one we want to win.

In sport, the underdog does come out on top quite a bit.

The Carling Cup may not be quite the same level as the FA Cup, but it is the first trophy of the season, so you definitely want to be in it.

In football, surprises are always possible.

When you win the FA Cup, you have a title and a very respectable title in England - more than other countries.

The Champions League and the Premier League are now both huge, but the tradition and history of the FA Cup is still very special.

As a young boy, all we used to watch was the Premier League at that time. I know the FA cup is quite important. It's as important as the Premier League in England. And I had a chance to win it over our biggest rival, and it was also in the new Wembley. It was a great moment.

All Champions League games are difficult.

CONCACAF games are tough.

The FA Cup means so much, and one day, I hope I will win it.

Everybody knows that, in football, anything can happen.

The shorter the game is then the bigger the chance of an upset.

We put a big value on the Carling Cup.