When you play a team with as much attacking power as Barcelona and you restrict them to one shot on target in the second leg, you are doing something right. Have the best football team gone through? Yes. Have the best organised team gone through? No.
They could've thrown a kitchen sink into the box and one of the guys would've headed it.
If you look at old football pictures, the jerseys were hanging, the sleeves were dangling, but now everything is tucked and tailored.
The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.
I think my boys handled it pretty much the same way with their children, but my grandsons all ended up playing football or lacrosse.
If you don't want to play clean football then go up into the stands
The game is choreographed; it is mental, it is physical, it is a battle. People can feel those hits when they are in the stadium, you feel them and you see the velocity of the players.
Not to be narcissistic, but I truly believe in order to make yourself better, you should see what you did before and what was good about that and what wasn't - same way a football team plays a game and then they go back and watch film.
When I played football, I liked being a goalkeeper or a midfielder. I was probably better at cricket. I would be a very good cricketer if I was a professional now. I think I would probably have been the best, in fact.
There are two things that really get under Gary Neville's skin: scousers and policemen.
In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.
My fantasy football team got mixed up in another fantasy and now they're stuck on a pirate ship with a chick in a Catwoman suit.
I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.
I always thought I could coach. I just thought people were poor judges of good coaches.
There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that.
I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played. . . Everybody wants to be like their father.
I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player.
You can't really get into regular football after you watch Australian rules football because it's just two different ends of the totem pole.
You're kind of numb after 50 shots to the head.
Thanksgiving is not just a warm, cozy holiday. It's not merely a time of recreation and relaxation and watching football all day. As we give thanks, we need to put our mind, soul and spirit into our thanks and into our praise.
