Football Perception Quotes

Men's is at a fast pace and focused on strength, whereas the women's is full of finesse and more skilful - and I think that's what the public have to associate with; male and female football is very different.

There are many ways to see football and interpret it.

Most people think footballers are thick. Some might be, academically, but they can see the game, strategically, tactically, in every way.

People told me I was more of a soccer player, not a football player.

People say the English players don't come to Italy because they look down on Serie A, but that's just not true.

There's a bit of a myth that you pre-suppose every European player is better than every English player.

We need to start from a presupposition: namely, that there is no 'better' football and no 'worse' kind of football, just different styles and cultures that belong to each country.

I grew up in Africa, in Nigeria. I never knew, I never had any reasonable encounter with football. I saw football on Sky News. I thought there were people dressed like extraterrestrials, you know, like they were going to Mars or something, headgears and shoulder pads. And I wondered why, as a child, why did they have to dress that way.

People too often - because it's an easy, lazy tag - dwell on my style of football.

Ligue 1 is much stronger than people give it credit for.

I think you're always fighting a losing battle when you're Scottish and I don't think that's right. I think the way that people look at Scottish football is wrong, but at the same time, we have to start proving it on the park and start showing it again.