Simon Rattle Quotes

It's difficult when you start to play football. My boots were much worse.

The best way to learn is getting out there, getting reps, and making mistakes.

I've played a lot of football in my life. I know the tempo and speed of the game.

I'd call myself a street footballer, that's where I learned my tricks, and through football I looked at the big players, I think it really helped me.

I haven't forgotten how to play football. But I need to play each weekend.

I started to play football when I was about 10; my father brought me to one school because there were more pitches where we could play.

I'm really good at football.

Well, I wanted to play football and I chased football for a little while.

We learn to do by doing.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

I believe that we learn by practice.

Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.

For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.

But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn.

It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.

My favorite way of learning for acting has been doing it, not talking about it.

I'm a bit rusty when it comes to football.

I had a lot of dealings with Bergkamp. I started with the under-17s at Ajax, and he was the assistant coach. Once or twice a week, we had individual one-to-one training sessions. You just watched Bergkamp. When you see him in training, he had skills that a guy just shouldn't be allowed to have.

I play football and I want to be considered as a footballer.

I want to play as much football as I can.

I had zero opportunity to play football over the years.

For me to be able to play football was a gift.