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A couple of games, I played up front when Diego Costa was not there. We know to create movement - not even to get the ball, but create space for others. Now I understand football is not always with the ball at my feet.

— Eden Hazard

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

People don't understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface - all of that goes into how the game is actually played.

— Abby Wambach

What happens is once you start to understand football, you realise that it's not just about the physical side of the game and chasing after a ball. It's a strategic sport which requires a lot of intelligence. It's a very mental game.

— Shakira

Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.

— Mal Peet

In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.

— Hayden Fry

I am a believer in passing the ball on the ground, I was lucky to be part of teams like that at Arsenal, with the French national team and with Monaco and at Barcelona. I know you can win in other ways, but I believe that is the way football should be played.

— Thierry Henry

Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves.

— Frank Lampard

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

You have different sorts of people in life, so why should it be any different in football?

— Andres Iniesta

To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it.

— John Madden

✗Opposing Perspectives

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