Jimmy Johnson Quotes

I've done everything I can at the University of Washington... I know I'm ready for the NFL.

I've spent my entire adulthood in pro football.

I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?

I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career.

I think the best place to work in football is England.

I knew before I came to Arsenal what kind of players were here. And of course, in training, you can see how many good players are here; the most important thing is that we work well as a team - that's the most important thing.

If you take golf, you have a teacher for the drive, a teacher for the approach play, and a teacher for the putt. That's three specialist coaches for one player. In football, one coach looks after 25 players.

I have the advantage of having worked with Messi and Mascherano at Barcelona.

Learning to be a Liverpool player comes with experience.

I've been in three offenses in the NFL. I think I'm pretty good now.

I'm confident I can be a success in English football.

I always wanted to play in the NFL. I decided to go to Florida State University as my college to play football because the coach there - Bobby Bowden - had a pedigree and acumen for putting players into the league.

My future is in footbal.

But my instinct as a football player is always to try and grow and try and improve and I think I can do this by joining a big club such as Manchester City.

I always thought that I could play football at the college level.

I had the good luck to have the experience of training with fantastic football players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Ozil, Modric, and I also played for Real Madrid B. That was a fantastic experience because it was my first international experience as a football player and taught me a lot as a football player.

College has become a wide-open game - a lot of short passes, quick passes. Then you go to the pros and it's a whole different ballgame - things are happening faster, the patterns have to be more precise. Getting off the line of scrimmage is more difficult.

I came from amateur football.

I played for Barcelona, for Ajax, where it's important to develop and integrate young talent.

If quarterbacks learned the West Coast offense in college, oh man - it would make a huge difference.

It's fun to say football is my job.

NFL Europe helped me quite a bit. It was a situation where I came out of college and spent the first few months of my career over in Europe.

I don't want to coach in the NFL.

Bielsa certainly had his own methods. He brought in laptops and showed us videos of where to be on the pitch in terms of position. They were strange little things, but that's why we learnt a lot under him.

Over the course of my career, I'm trying to win Super Bowls... I am an NFL football player now, and I'm going to try the best that I can to be the best one.