Football Insight Quotes

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.

Ask José Mourinho, he wouldn't know a thing about me, my sport - he knows football, and to get to high levels you have to be insane, nothing else means anything.

I don't think some of the people who come to Old Trafford can spell football, never mind understand it.

First of all, I wish everyone who loved football could stand in the quarterback's shoes just for a play, because I think it would be tremendously humbling to anyone who loved the game to say, "I didn't -- I had no idea." You can think about what it would be like, and the cameras are getting better at giving that perspective, that one that the skycam comes down and you get a sense of it, but you just -- you don't know.

Going away to West Brom, I learned, too. You learn things about football. You learn about yourself. You get to assess the situation from the outside, looking in.

It sounds strange, maybe, because I have played with a lot of big players but I never thought: 'OK, they're going to go into management.' Maybe there was only one, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, because he was always talking about football but I did not have a feeling with the other players.

I have been around football a long time and know a lot about it, so if I have an opinion and don't voice it, then it is a bit of a waste.

I think that's awesome to have a former player in the GM role, somebody that not only understands the game of football but has played the game of football.

I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns.

You have to just have football knowledge. Without football knowledge, it doesn't matter how much skill you have.

I don't think people realise the quality of player in the lower leagues.