Sol Campbell Quotes

For me, good football is not about how many skills you show or how many players you beat. It's about making the right decision every time you have the ball.

I always play football in my team, and I know that if you play too much long ball, then it's difficult.

I do not know if we play the most beautiful or attractive football, but we certainly play more intelligently, more functionally and more precisely than anyone else.

When you play with good players, they will always create chances for the forwards to score.

There is so much interaction in a football match: between you and your team-mates and how you support each other, work for each other, make runs. But I also enjoy the other aspect: the pressing and how people work so hard to recover the ball.

Sometimes in midfield, it's nice because you do get a little bit more of the ball, and maybe out wide you rely on people to get you the ball.

I have to play with discipline in midfield.

I have to make sure that we're in the right plays and I can get the ball out quickly and get into our playmakers' hands.

I have to open the game from my position. It's really important to play with the ball.

This is one of the challenges we have: knowing that playing without the ball is just as important as when you have the ball.

When teams play good football, it tends to create chances for the striker.

I stay in the middle and my team-mates can go to attack.

I just try to set good screens and get my teammates open.

The triangle itself is just an offense based on freedom of the ball to go to different places, everybody feeling involved. It's a good thing.

As a player, you are more concerned with the moments when you have possession of the ball or are about to receive the ball. You are watching your team-mates and trying to decide what the possibilities are.

When I get the ball, the players need to start running, and then I just feed them with the ball.

Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.

Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal, especially when Dennis Bergkamp was playing. He seemed to be able to read the game like a chessboard and knew where a player would be several seconds later and put the ball there for him.

I always think how I should play to make the most out of my teammates' abilities and their established styles.

I've always been the point guard, always been the floor general out there, and it's helped me see things I didn't previously see on offense from a shooting guard standpoint.

In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.

Before I came to Barcelona, I only thought about one facet of the game: destroying. My qualities were completely defensive, and I wouldn't take responsibility for organising my team's game, our attacks.

If I have the ball in my hands, I'll make a play. If don't, I'll try to get in position to make a play. I think that's what it comes down to.

Some coaches and quarterbacks over-analyze things at times. Sometimes it can be pitch and catch, let the play-makers make plays.

I like to control the ball and analyse the game.