Graeme Souness Quotes

I don't like it if I'm not part of the starting 11.

There's players around the world that get assists from number 10s or wingers.

Messi is the same player in Barcelona and Argentina, and it would be the same if he played with Australia.

At 16, I was a slow right-back and wasn't good enough to play centre-back.

People are usually scared of me because of the arrogant character I play. They stare at me with fear that I might just scold them and often run away from me.

Sometimes I played as a goalkeeper with my brother and his friends - they were all older, and nobody wanted to go in goal, so it had to be me!

Sweden usually don't play good against the poor teams. We like being the underdogs.

When you look at my astonishing physique you probably think to yourself, This kid must eat nothing but molten steel. That's a common misconception.

I'm looking forward to every game that I'm going to be involved in, whether it's the Champions League, Premier League, or anything else.

I like watching Spanish and Italian games and looking at how they play compared to us.

I was a pretty good soccer player, but it just wasn't for me. I thrive in the intensified atmosphere on a football field.

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.

Football is a game based on emotion and intelligence. Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid.

At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.

I was awful at football when I was a little kid. I didn't have the aggressiveness. I was just a nice kid. I didn't want to hurt anyone.

When football stars disappear, so do the teams, and that is a very curious phenomenon. It is like in the theatre, in a play, where there is a great star. If the star is not well, the whole cast suffers.

Football is a simple game. It's just very hard to play it simple.

I've gone from being a brilliant captain of a TV soccer team to an average rugby player on a real team. I've gotten so used to ruling the roost and just saying whatever the hell I wanted, and I had to get back to reality.

I'm very scary. I'm a menace.

If you have not seen it, FOOTBALL is a game in which men shove one another back and forth for no reason. They do not choose how, when, or whom they shove. They are doing this in order to please one angry old man on the sidelines. This old man is called the 'coach' or 'yelling surrogate' dad who will never be happy.

I like to score a proper goal, you know - a passing move.

He had a body like batman

Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters.