Football Analysis Quotes

Sometimes, if a striker is not scoring as many goals, they can still be in good form.

I deal with football from a realistic, logical point of view.

When we have a defensive situation in which we are conceding too many goals, it is not just a problem in the defense but the entire team, starting with the coach.

I think Brian Hoyer is a good quarterback.

When you call a game, it's almost like you're doing a three-hour movie and the production of it all, living in the moment in real time, the replays, all the intricacies that go into putting a game in a broadcast. It's not just 100 percent football.

There are a lot of people in England with good football knowledge.

I'm a massive football fan, so when Ladbrokes approached me and asked me to take a look at the statistics, I jumped at the chance.

Diego Costa is a good example. He's doing very well, and he's arguably one of the best strikers in the world, so I have to see what he does and add it to my game.

I enjoy watching football on TV. Many times I can visualize the whole field, even on the TV screen, because I still know enough about what the teams are doing.

In all the years that I've been in football - I went directly from coaching to broadcasting - I never really had a lot of experience watching it.

When I watch professional football, I love listening to John Madden because I know he knows what he's talking about. He's been both down in the trenches and in front of the bench as a coach. He knows the game.

Everyone is going to be talking about Chelsea and Liverpool but the others are very tough teams.

Kirk Cousins has played much better at the quarterback position than Robert Griffin III has.

I was a big fan of Maradona growing up and of the current crop Ronaldo is good but Messi is the best I’ve ever seen. I don’t dish out praise lightly but Messi deserves it. I look for weaknesses in his game and I can’t find them.

I am a footballer. I know how to play football, and I know how to manage projects in the area of football. This is what I want to limit myself to.

I always have at least 10 index cards with me every time I watch college football games on Saturdays.

When I started analysing games in 2001, I had a DVD recorder. I'd be at home watching the games just on a normal TV, watching what I could and trying to figure out what we would be facing a few weeks later. The problem was, in the team meetings, I'd always have to keep going back and forwards with the footage, trying to get to the right part.

If I watch big games like the Champions League on TV then I'm definitely watching what different centre-backs are doing in certain situations.

So much in football is touching, feeling, walking through, writing it on boards, drawing Xs and Os. And all those are the best for me.

I love talking about football, and obviously I love playing football, but you may not be able to play football forever, but you can talk about it for a long time.

You watch guys talk about football, and you think that maybe it's really easy, and it's really not. Yeah, we've got the expertise because we played, but how you put that into a 30-, 45-second take and educate and entertain someone that's watching?

But to be fair, Arsenal are a quality side. They're not where they are by chance - they are not top of the league and unbeaten because they are a bad team.

Ben Roethlisberger is Tim Tebow minus Jesus.

I do catch NFL games every now and again, and it doesn't remind me of anything that I watch when breaking down opponents or watching college games on TV. It's completely different.

He's a novice - he should keep his opinions to Japanese football