Field of Play Quotes

When you're out on the touchline, like a winger, it is easier to play. You see everything: the mess, the crowd, the activity is all inside. When you play inside, you don't see anything in there because so much is happening in such a small space and all around you.

Racism is if there are spectators or, outside the field of play, there are movements to discrimination, but, on the field of play, I deny that there is racism.

The trainer I learned most from about the field of play was Van Gaal, even though he's the one I've had the most confrontations with - well, disagreements. He's got an obsession with work ethic, the way he plans.

All we can do is play ball. Every time we go out on the field, we do what we do in America - live in the freedom that our country affords us.

The ref was vertically 15 yards away.

But really, I can only be dangerous for the team in one place, and that is in the box.

The reality of football rests on that patch of green between 90 and 95 minutes. Whichever team is going to win has to do it on the field of play and by scoring more goals than the opposition.

Football has end zones and goal posts; basketball has the hoop, and hockey the goal cage. Baseball is the only game with an imaginary box: the strike zone, which the umpire determines at his own discretion.

At the end of the day, it's 11 men versus 11 on the pitch.

The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play.