Midfielders Best Quotes & Sayings

I've still got Paul Scholes' shirt at home which I swapped with him once. When I was at Liverpool he was one of the players I liked most. Maybe he's not valued as much as he should be in England because of the style of football there and because he keeps a low profile. Perhaps he would have been more valued in Spain, where midfielders like him form part of the 'ideal.' Fans in Spain rate him very highly and I admire him a huge amount. — Xabi Alonso

Sad to hear of Paul Scholes retirement! One of the best midfielders to grace the Premiership! Idolised him for years! Legend. — Jordan Henderson

A good midfielder has eyes in the back of his head, that's the secret in a nutshell — Ernst Happel

Scholes is undoubtedly the best midfielder of his generation. — Zinedine Zidane

You can't ask every player to do the same thing. That's why we have amazing midfielders, defenders, forwards and keepers. You can't ask them to be of the same mold. — Tiffeny Milbrett

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him. — Josh Billings

Steven Gerrard is the best player I've ever played with. — Luis Suarez

All he would have needed to do, to find comfort in the Christian's words, was to believe. — Michael Chabon

The last word of the Northmen before their entry in the larger world of Southern culture, their last independent guess at the secret of the Universe, is given in the Twilight of the Gods. As far as it goes, and as a working theory, it is absolutely impregnable. It is the assertion of the individual freedom against all the terrors and temptations of the world. It is absolute resistance, perfect because without hope. — W. P. Ker

If you slow it down, eat in courses, your body, mind, stomach will catch up with this full feeling and you won't eat as much. — Guy Fieri

When your heart is first, you can be absent of heart but when you put spirit first, you have a reason for why you do heart. — Derek Luke

If you ever touch her again I will fucking kill you," he said in a cold lethal tone that sent chills down her back. "You so much as look at her and I will kill you. — R.L. Mathewson

Out of everyone at Manchester United, I would pick out Scholes, he is the best midfielder of his generation. I would had loved to play alongside him. — Pep Guardiola

There are a lot of teams that don't want to play, that only want to defend against Barcelona, and that makes it difficult. We're always looking for the open space. A lot of times we'll face six defenders and four midfielders. — Xavi

The way this country deals with drugs is just not funny. What a waste of everyone's time and effort. What a waste of a lot of people's lives. — Dave Barry

Religion is not so bad, unless you believe it. — David Eller

The only great English midfielder in my career was Paul Scholes. He had elegance in him. Others were pretenders. — Andrea Pirlo

Image has to be its own fortress, in spite of the owners. People can't separate that or they don't comprehend that you can turn that on and off for each one of the different entities. — Todd McFarlane

My toughest opponent? Scholes of Manchester. He is the complete midfielder. — Zinedine Zidane

I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.' — Xavi

In the last 15 to 20 years the best central midfielder that I have seen - the most complete - is SCHOLES — Xavi

For me, Marouane Fellaini has been one of the best midfielders in the Premier League over the last few seasons. If he continues to improve at United, we'll have a really good player on our hands. — David Moyes