Richard Gough Quotes

Yes, it's possible that I will end my career at FC Porto.

If I can push myself up to the 2018 World Cup, then I'll go on. After that, I'll close the door and stop playing football.

I wish to play again for West Ham before I finish my career.

Obviously my last two years in the NFL were not much fun at all.

I think I could take a job as an NFL scout.

Maybe I'll quit after my time at Bayern; maybe I will play somewhere else for one more year.

When I was 18, I had a trial at Benfica, when Sven-Goran Eriksson was the manager. Then, at 21, I was working for a company loading vegetables onto trucks.

Yes, in 1983, I had the opportunity to sign for Liverpool.

I will not end my career with Banfield. I will stay at Inter until the end, the Nerazzurri fans should remain tranquil.

Logically, if there was a chance to improve and go to a bigger club, it would be a good opportunity, although there are few clubs bigger than Liverpool.

I don't know where horse riding could have taken me, and it's something I can always go back to when I've retired from football, but the crossroads came in my life when Chelsea wanted to sign me and make me a professional footballer in 2013 when I was 20.

When Manchester United and Jose Mourinho come knocking at the door, it is an opportunity of a lifetime and one that I could not turn down.

When I left Arsenal, it was because I had done everything there and a big club like Real Madrid wanted me and even David Beckham couldn't turn them down.

Pellegrini was the biggest factor for me to be joining West Ham.

I actually had the chance to sign for Newcastle before I went to West Ham; I didn't in the end because they had got rid of their reserve team. There were a few clubs interested but I liked what West Ham had to offer and never regretted signing for them, I loved it straight away.

When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.

I worked at the number one team in the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, and now also in England.

I never went overseas until I left school and joined West Ham United Football Club at the beginning of the Sixties.

I had good times with Juventus but when you are offered the chance to come to Real at almost 33 years of age it is a great opportunity.

I have no regrets about taking the United job. When you get offered a job like that, you take it.

I've put football behind me.

I was very excited about the possibility of playing for Spurs and in England. I would like to thank the club for their efforts in trying to sign me.

When I stopped playing football, I stopped my relationship with my agent. I always had one agent.

I work for the BBC now. I do it because I genuinely love football.

Manuel Pellegrini had convinced me to go with him to Manchester City. I was doing very well at Malaga, but I accepted.