Owen Farrell Quotes

It's the older girls I seem to get on with. I think it's just because they kind of respect me as a player, I suppose.

I never really called people out. It was more along the lines of teasing a person. It started for me in fifth grade on the basketball court.

When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.

When your best players are really good guys, it's the best.

We footballers don't address one another as 'My dear.'

I always get made fun of by my teammates for my huge calves, but I'm like, 'they make me strong and fast!'

That's the great thing with Lyon: we are such a competitive group of players, but we know each other so well, so what happens on the pitch stays on the pitch.

My dad has coached a long time, so there aren't too many conversations in my family that haven't centered around basketball.

I think it is rare that one player really hates another player on a team.

The best part of my business is working with my family, and the worst part of my business is working with my family.

To make sense of bossiness, we need to tease apart two fundamental aspects of social hierarchy that are often lumped together: power and status. Power lies in holding a formal position of authority or controlling important resources. Status involves being respected or admired.

Awards go up at Mum and Dad's, but home is home, and I don't like to bring the office home.

When you're on the court with guys that know basketball, it's a universal language for us.

With every side I've played for, I've always tried to fit in and joke with my team mates while enjoying good times with them on and off the pitch. And that's what's happened with Les Bleus.

I think any player would say that they want their coaches' respect, they want their teammates' respect, and they want their opponent to respect them.

I have a go at defenders, and they have a go at me. We argue... Whatever happens on the pitch stays on the pitch.

I was on a basketball team as a kid, and there were two twins who were a little older and a little bigger than I was, and there was some bullying going on there.

My parents and my older brother played. You kind of want to do what your family does. They were on the court. I'm like, 'I want to be on the court, too.'

It's kind of interesting on a team sport because you have young players, you have older players, you have veterans. But ultimately, when you step in between those lines, you're just a player.

One thing when I started playing in the league, I saw that a lot of guys are friendly. It's OK to be friendly, especially off the court. But on the court, I want to dominate.

Like with me, I just see my mum and dad as parents - I don't see my dad individually as a man, my mum individually as a woman.

It can be difficult playing friends. But you also have to know that it's a match, and this is what you do. And you do your best.

Ultimately, as players, we are inside the tent, and we have got to deal with what happens between the white lines.

Ever since third grade - I never even noticed it until after the game - people were telling me how crazy my dad is. I think I'm so locked in when I'm playing on the floor, I only hear him maybe during timeouts or when we're up 20 or 30 and I'm on the bench. But when I'm in the game, I don't hear him.

If you are captain of a great team like Paris St-Germain there are lots of players like Zlatan, players who are known by everybody. So to be captain of that team gives you respect and, in football, respect is very important.