Football Leagues Quotes

Do I like most footballers? Not really. Joe Hart, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Joleon Lescott, Gabby Agbonlahor and a group of the guys at Villa - good people.

I like the style of football in England and the style of Arsenal, and I'm very happy to play in the Premier League.

Football really felt like a private thing when I was in my teens because it wasn't on television, for a start, apart from 'Match of the Day.'

My first season with Pittsburgh was 1969. We were still in the old NFL. My second year, we moved to the AFC when the leagues merged. I went to the Pro Bowl that season, and there must have been nine Raiders and nine Chiefs. I got to know all those guys.

I mean no offence, but we know that the French league is not the same as the Spanish or English league, where there's more difficulty.

I absolutely love playing in Europe. The Premier League is fantastic, but once you get a taste for it, it's the place to be.

Growing up in Canada, I didn't watch football much.

The Bundesliga is a strong league and a good place to go. One can only recommend the Bundesliga.

In Spain, they show many Premier League games on TV, and it is an inspirational league. Maybe I would like to play in the Premier League.

You can take a sidewards step in the Premier League, go to a team in the Championship or come to a team in League One.

I watch the Premier League, the Spanish and Dutch leagues, and a little bit of the German league.

Houston is my team, always and forever. But with the new TV packages, it's so easy to watch every league in the world, and my overseas fandom is driven by the American guys. If Sunderland's on TV, I'll watch Jozy Altidore. I try to watch Geoff Cameron at Stoke. When Clint Dempsey was at Tottenham, I watched a lot of his games.

But it's different in England. We have different players from different races, even in the lower leagues. They don't have that in some places abroad.

With the Champions League, it's not bad staying at Monaco.

A move to England? I understand why a lot of players are moving there. It's one of the best leagues in the world. But the same goes for the Bundesliga.

I like football, and I like good players.

Everyone knows there's real emphasis on technique in La Liga, and I'm a technical player; in that sense, it's a good fit. But all leagues are a good fit for me - I can play anywhere.

I'm a football fan in general. I'm always pulling for a good game.

The Spanish and German leagues are of a very high standard. Along with the Premier League, they are probably the best.

I started lower down the leagues with Coventry, so I'd had that taste of first-team action at a young age. I'd already played 40 or 50 games before moving on, and when I got to Norwich, I had to bide my time at the start.

When I was growing up, I knew a lot about football because I saw some of my grown-up siblings watching football on TV and they supported Manchester United.

I've always said, if everything was equal, from money to retirement to endorsement opportunities - all that stuff - if everything was equal, I'd play Arena football over the NFL. It was built for quarterbacks. It was just backyard football.

I can talk 10 hours about football. From the moment I leave home, I talk about football.

I don't think you sign a four-year contract in the Premier League and then go to China at the age of 26.

Like me or not, I am the only one who has won the world's three most important leagues. So, maybe instead of the 'Special One', people should start calling me the 'Only One'.