Football Honour Quotes

To play with Zinedine Zidane was the biggest honour I have had in my career...

To play along alongside Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, or Franck Ribery is an honour for any footballer.

Right now I'm living my boyhood dream, which was to play for a European club. The fact that it's a huge club like Barcelona makes it a tremendous honour. I like everything about the city: the climate, the people. It's quite similar to Brazil, which helps a lot. There's even a beach!

It has been an honour to defend the colours of a historic club like Deportivo.

To play in the white shirt of England is an honour, and you give your all every time you step on the pitch.

Playing for England is such a huge honour - it should always remain that.

I say always that the Premier League is the best league in the world, and it's an honour to play here.

I have always said that for me it would be an honour to continue at Juventus and to end my career here, because it's a shirt you are proud to wear.

Pulling on your country's shirt is the greatest honour a footballer can have. It's what I always dreamed of as a kid and I get a buzz every time.

It would be a huge honour for me to wear the armband for Germany as the first black captain ever.