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I'm adapting quite well to English football with the same will I've always had. -- Sergio Aguero
English football is in a bad way because the foreign players here are so good, so dominant. -- Kevin Keegan
I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment. -- Wally Schirra
The level of football in England is the top. English football is the leader in the world. -- Pele
English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed. -- Yaya Toure
I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen as the real bad boy. -- Diego Maradona
It's fantastic for Arsenal, and for English football as well. You've got an English club with a lot of young English talent committing themselves to a club. -- Dennis Bergkamp
German football is like English football. The Germans and the English do not play like a Brazilian side. They have to improve, bring up their young players, who have character. -- Franz Beckenbauer
English football has just had a transfer window imposed for the first time, so it will be interesting to see how managers cope with the squads they have until it re-opens. -- David Ginola
Sometimes English football takes pride in having the lowest yellow-card count in Europe, but of course it will have if you can take someone's leg off and still not be booked. -- Luis Suarez
I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking football. But I also have things to give them. -- Jose Mourinho
If we had a starting XI that no one could argue about it wouldn't say a lot for English football. We'd probably be on a downward spiral. It's good that people have different ideas about who should play. -- Rio Ferdinand
You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things to learn from them in the same way they have a lot of things to learn from English football. -- Jose Mourinho
There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities. -- Gary Neville
When I'm in town on Sundays, I sometimes go down to the Central Bar in the East Village to watch English football. But my natural inclination now is to get in the car with my wife and kids and get out of town. -- Joe Scarborough
In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury. -- Alex Ferguson
The Football Association have always acted more as a referee than a governor. And the FA, aware the Premier League provide players for the England team, have always had too gentle a hand on the tiller. The result is that the Premier League are the tigers in the English football jungle everybody's scared of. -- Gordon Taylor
The chairmen of the largest companies in the world can cancel an appointment or move a board meeting; a manager cannot change the date of a game. In the combined 42 years that Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger have managed in English football, I can only remember one occasion when Sir Alex did not attend a Manchester United game. -- Howard Wilkinson
Christiano knows English, Messi knows football -- Fabio Capello
The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football. -- Hesketh Pearson
God bless whoever invented football. It was the English, I think. And what a fantastic idea it was -- Paolo Rossi
Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football. -- Bill Bryson
What United have got that Chelsea haven't is Paul Scholes. I think he is different to anything else in English football. -- Kevin Keegan
I love this game, I love this sport, I love this league. Why don't I get my own team? (English Premiership football club) -- Roman Abramovich
In my first season I was learning about English football in a new team. I scored 13 which isn't bad, but I think I can do better. -- Luis Garcia
It was the proudest moment of my career to lead my team out at the home of English football. I never, ever dreamt that would happen! -- Casey Stoney
I have come to know well that fates are fickle in the business of English football. And I feel that I have pushed mine well past the limit. -- Randy Lerner
Winning the Championship is like taking a 26-year ball and chain from around our legs. Now we can go forward, and hopefully dominate English football for the next 10 years, like Liverpool did. -- Bryan Robson

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