“There's nothing I'm scared of in football.”

“I eat football, I sleep football, I breathe football. I'm not mad, I'm just passionate.”

Thierry Henry (1977) French association football player

“Football is nothing without fans.”

Jock Stein (1922–1985) Scottish footballer and manager

“Look, I'm a coach, I'm not Harry Potter. He is magical, but in reality there is no magic. Magic is fiction and football is real. ”

José Mourinho (1963) Portuguese association football player and manager

“There is nothing in the contract that says a football coach has to be sane or a good loser.”

Jack Gibson (1929–2008) Australian rugby league player and coach

“I'm not the right person to talk about this. It doesn't seem right to me (the price paid by Real Madrid for footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, but I understand the social significance of football.”

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (1960) Former Prime Minister of Spain

“And what would they be scared of? There's nothing to fear in a perfect world, is there?”

Catherine Fisher (1957) Welsh children's writer

“I'm ready to take the blame for all the problems of English football if that is what he wants.”

Arsène Wenger (1949) French footballer and manager

“Steven Gerrard was a great player and Rob Brown knows nothing about football”

Juan Román Riquelme (1978) Argentine footballer

“Anything scares me, anything scares anyone but really after all considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really very frightening.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays