Football Life Quotes

You're playing football for a living. There aren't many things better than that.

There is pressure every day as a footballer.

Al Davis has been the biggest influence in my professional football life. I mean, he was a guy that gave me an opportunity, one, to get into professional football in 1967 as an assistant coach, and then at the age of 32, giving me the opportunity to be the head coach.

So they talk about heaven, and I don't know what is waiting for me up there. But I can tell you this: Nothing will happen up there that can duplicate my life down here. Nothing. That life cannot be better than the one I've lived down here, the football life. It's been perfect.

The game's my life and I'm so passionate about it. When you see your life so intertwined with football it can make things very difficult. You might go and watch a film and start imagining footballers running across the screen, you know?

I've been a coach for 30 years and I've been around football my entire life.

You must prepare to quit, and they should start doing that from day one because the average life of a pro-football player is only three and a half years. It's not five. It's not seven. It's not 10.

I do enjoy seeing footballers every day, being on the training ground.

Football is to be enjoyed and I've enjoyed my life in football for many years, it's the pinnacle of my career and I want to enjoy it the most.

To give back something to the game of football has been a part of my life.

I live, breathe and eat football.

I think 'Shade Room,' it's a different me. You know, I think it's more on the lyrical side, talking about my life and how I really feel. You know, all these things outside of football. And people really get to look at how I feel about things or how I look at certain things. It's not just a song, more so me just telling people how I feel.

You have to take the good with the bad and if you have to play over Christmas you have to. We have a good life and playing football over Christmas is not the worst thing in the world.

People think that football is all glamour and money but trust me all footballers go through the same boring and annoying things as everybody else.

The World Cup is what we've done all them hours for. It's why we give up normal life.

Unfortunately, everyone's football career does come to an end.

You just can't believe how quickly things happen in football and the way life turns. I went from being the bad guy, the worst player who gets all the criticism, to being the player who makes the difference and scores the important goals.

You have to deal with a lot of things when you are a professional football player, and that is not so easy.

People just have no idea how strange and surreal a football life can be.

Any injury is tough, and it is a little bit tougher when it is the hand that you have to catch with, but it is football man. I wouldn't have it any other way.

I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.

I played football for a huge portion of my life, all the way through college actually.

I still mess around and joke with my family and friends like I did when I was nine or 10. For me, nothing's changed. Sure, I play football, but I try to keep my life off the pitch as simple as possible.

I can retire from football with a smile on my face.

I'm just playing my football, and I will just see what the future holds for me.