Michael Owen Quotes, a complete collection

Michael Owen is a former professional player who had a career as a striker with many big clubs including Liverpool, Manchester United and Real Madrid, as well as the England National team. He has been active as a football pundit and a commentator in recent years.

During his illustrated career, Owen won many collective titles and individual awards, the most important of those were one Premier League, two FL Cup, The Uefa Cup and the European Super Cup. His biggest individual achievement was without a doubt winning the 2001 Ballon d'Or. He also won two

Golden Boots and was voted the Premier League player of the season twice.

represented England national team from 1998 to 2008. His best spell with the national team was at the 1998 World Cups, where he scored twice, one of them a legendary goal against Argentina. Owen retired in 2013 at Stoke City In total, He scored 262 goals and in 571 games during his professional career. In the following article we present you with a complete collection of

Michael Owen quotes

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Best Collection of Michael Owen quotes

We present football fans with the Best collection of Michael Owen quotes which includes his quotes about his personality and career as well as his comments on Messi and Ronaldo.

Michael Owen quotes about his character, childhood and personal life

Michael Owen was born at 14th of December 1979, into a football-loving family from Chester district in England. His father, Terry Owen was also a professional player who played at the Premier League with

. He famously scored 96 goals in one season when he was 10 years old.

Owen first met his wife, Louise Bonsall at high school. The couple married in 2004 and have four kids: three daughters and one son. Owen has had a passion for horsing since his childhood. He famously bought an entire street for his extended family in Ewloe, which is in an area close to where he used to live. He has appeared in a few movies and series for kids. With such a busy life outside of football, It is certainly interesting to know more about Michael Owen quotes on his own personality and personal life.

About his wife and kid

My kids are one, three, five and eight, and we are all horsey. The kids have got their ponies and can ride. Our foundation mare is special to our hearts. She was one of my first ever horses. She was my first ever winner at

, which is also special, and she's just the apple of our eyes, really.

If you're a goal scorer, you have to have a certain attitude. I'm very serious. My missus thinks I'm a bit weird. I'm cold, I don't have many emotions. It's very rare I cry.

To breed a winner, let alone at Royal Ascot, is unbelievable. I've got four children and they all love the mother. We pat it most days and she's a lovely mare.

About his Personality and favorites

Funnily enough brie is not a cheese that I would eat on its own – it just goes well with turkey and cranberry. If I’m eating cheese on its own with a cracker it has to be really strong. I can handle a strong cheese. Stilton, things like that. If you’re buying mature cheese, then Canadian is probably the strongest one. Canadian extra mature, or Stilton, or anything that really stinks. That’s only really happened in the last five years. Before that I preferred a milder cheese.

I don’t listen to anything. I don’t know why, but the car’s always been my own quiet space. When the kids are in the car they always want a song on, but I’m just happy with my thoughts.

It’s very boring, but I don’t watch films. I think I’ve seen about five in my life. I just can’t get into them. I do try – someone will say, ‘Watch this film, it’s great,’ and I’ll try but after half an hour, 40 minutes I can’t take it any longer.

I like factual stuff. I don’t like being kidded by anything. That’s my problem with films: I just can’t believe it. I sit there, thinking, ‘I wonder how many takes that took?’ and, ‘Is that a stuntman?

The big action fights are so far-fetched I shake my head in disbelief: people shooting each other, rolling over with bullets just missing them, jumping off of trains. How can anyone believe that? (from Owen's interview with the Guardian)

I hate to admit this but I don't even know how to make a cup of tea or coffee. I can boil a kettle for a pot noodle and I've been known to warm up some food in the microwave.

You are affected by the surroundings, the mood of people, by confidence. I am no different.

To be the best you have to forget partying and concentrate all your energies on the football.

If you cut me in half, I'm a footballer.

I don't feel pressure going into games.

I find it hard to say no to people.

To be at the top, you have to have a competitive streak in you. If you're not performing, you've got to be angry with yourself.

I don't want to pack everything into one year and then do nothing the rest of my life. I think it's important to do things bit by bit.

A new club is like having a new girlfriend – you don't have feelings straight away

I don't believe in superstitions. I just do certain things because I'm scared in case something will happen if I don't do them

I want to have as normal a life as possible.

I don't want to be modelling G-strings. It's not that good for my image – I'm a footballer not a tart

Horses will never be my career. It's just a big passion of mine, and one that will always be there in the background, but football is my main passion and everyone knows that.

The difference with football is you're out on the pitch, you feel as though you can do something about it, or score a goal. But when that horse goes down to post as an owner you have no involvement whatsoever. It's a lonely old place in the stand. It's just down to man and beast.

If you look at anyone at the top of their profession, there has to be something a little bit different. You have to be driven, cold, hard and mentally tough as iron.

I would like to think that if I stop playing in three, four, five years time, whatever it may be, that I would still be involved in football and still have that as my profession. It is my passion and what I know.

You are affected by the surroundings, the mood of people, by confidence. I am no different.

I joined Twitter and you read a lot of the comments. You're biting your lip and you want to reply but you know a headline will be made from it and you don't want to give people the satisfaction.

Michael Owen quotes about football, his playing style and career

Michael Owen was famous for his incredible pace and goal scoring instincts. He was a cool finisher and always looked for opportunities to score goals. Owen suffered from a series of heavy injuries, which eventually put an end to his career in 2013. He was a key member of the

and many Premier League clubs and showed his strong personality in many key moments of his amazing career. The followings are Michael Owen quotes about football, his career and his own playing style.

About football

If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.

You need people who score goals. That's how you win games

If you look at football over the last 50 years there has been a gradual decrease in goals, you don't see too many 10-nils these days, but two, three or four goals per game is a good spectacle.

You learn to understand it, but if you step back, you do think it is either strange or unfair. But I know that if you don't score, play well or win, you are wrong to have a helicopter and fly home each week to see your kids. You are wrong to have a business outside of football.

About His playing style

An emotion that lives with me is a sense of what might have been had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon - speed.

I was born to score goals, I feel.

It bothers me when I don't score.

As a youngster, I was considered exceptional, and in many ways that was to my detriment.

The longer my career has gone, the more I seem to score... It's experience and age and knowing where the ball's going to be.

I was proper, proper fast at one point, and obviously I'm not now, so I've lost certain things, but when I was that fast I didn't need to do certain other things in a game. It was such a potent weapon.

I've always wanted to be a top footballer since I was young.

I feel that every time I get the ball at the moment I am going to score.

Game by game is how I judge myself. At the end of the season, yeah, I do look back and think about how many games I've been available for, how many goals I've scored, how I've contributed. But that's what the summer's for. For now, you just look to the next one.

The way I look at myself, the biggest achievement in my eyes - forget winning trophies or scoring in World Cups - is that I'm still at a top club playing at a really high standard having been almost two different players.

I don't set myself targets. Last season I scored hat-trick against

and three days later, that was forgotten, you're about to be judged again. When you've done well, you don't want another game, you just want to feel great. When you've done badly, you can't wait for another chance to come.

When you're a kid you just think about where you are going to be to put yourself in a position for the next scoring chance. But as you develop, you start to do things that may not catch the eye of the normal football watcher, the dropping back, the closing down.

I basically run on two hamstrings on my right leg and three on the other. I'm losing a third of the power.

At 18 to 20, I was probably one of the quickest things around, at the peak of my powers.

There is no doubt that I would have won more honours had I signed for Manchester United as a youngster.

I'm confident in my own ability. If that wasn't the case you might as well pack it in now. If you think too much, you start doubting yourself, doubting your quality, so you have to train yourself in a certain way.

I was born to score goals, I feel. How I score them - how I get the ball into the back of the net - might have changed. The actual ability of what I was born to do will never leave me.

I was proper, proper fast at one point, and obviously I'm not now, so I've lost certain things, but when I was that fast I didn't need to do certain other things in a game. It was such a potent weapon.

As I've got older, I've become more intrigued about formations, tactics, I listen a lot more to the manager's team talk; as a kid, if I'm honest, I never listened.

An emotion that lives with me is a sense of 'what might have been' had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon - speed.

I have been very fortunate in that my career has taken me on a journey I could only have dreamed of.

On his career with English National team

There's nothing quite like a World Cup.

England have players who can rattle anyone's feathers.

I'd love to go and I'd love to play for my country and go to a

again. I've got to accept I'm not in the current squad and just think, 'If I get it, it's a bonus and I'll give it everything.' But it's hard to do when you've been thinking a different way all your life.

If you have any setback in your life, like not being in the England squad was for me - any setback, like losing a family member - everyone handles it in different ways. When I first wasn't included I was numb. I'd been the main England striker for years and years. It was really disappointing.

I think England are probably not as streetwise as plenty of other teams. The other top teams know how to keep a victory or do certain things to hang on to leads or get back in games. They're a lot more streetwise than us. I think as a nation we are very honest, we try to win the right way.

There are pitfalls in World Cups, there are players who can win penalties and players who get the slightest touch and go down holding their face or whatever and get someone sent off. There are all these little things and you're hoping that you're not on the wrong end of it.

If I'd still been in one piece from the World Cup and gone through my career, what type of player would I have been? No doubt about it, if I hadn't had as many injuries I would have been the all-time leading scorer for England.

Top quotes by Michael Owen about famous football players and teams

In this part of our article on we will have a look at the

top quotes by Michael Owen

about other football great stars and teams, including his comments on Steven Gerrard, John Terry and Harry Kane.

On Paul Scholes:

 Nobody on this planet had a range of passing like Paul Scholes. Training every day was a pleasure just watching him. Unbelievable career.

On Lionel Messi:

I can't believe anyone can have played the game of football as well as Messi.

On Cristiano Ronaldo:

I think the greatest Real Madrid player of all time is

followed by Ferenc Puskas. Ronaldo equalled Puskas’ great record of 242 goals in fewer games. He was also the fastest Real Madrid player to score 100 goals and holds the record for most goals scored for Madrid in a season.

On Thierry Henry:

Henry had taken striking on to a different level

Michael Owen funniest quotes, commentaries and one-liners

Michael Owen is famous for his hilarious comments about football and We wrap up our article with a complete collection of

Michael Owen funniest quotes

and commentaries.  

• I love these players with two feet.

• That shot is impossible. I saw Yaya Toure do it once.

• When the ball is that still, it’s wobbling in the air.

• To stay in the game, you have to stay in the game.

• Pellegrini will speak to them and City will come out with a fresh set of impetus.

• Do they deserve to win? No, Liverpool do. Which is why a draw is a fair result.

• If there’s a bit of rain about, it makes the surface wet.

• When they don’t score, they hardly ever win.

• What a feeling it is to be a manager and bring someone on.

• What a shot! That’s completely unstoppable, but the keeper’s got to do better for me.

• It’s hit the facial part of his head, there.

(I doubt Everton are going to get anything out of this game. (

were 4-0 up after 50 minutes at Anfield

• That’s a fantastic penalty, but he’ll be gutted it went wide.

• Whichever team scores more goals usually wins.

• That would’ve been a goal had it gone inside the post.

• Alderweireld played really well last year for Tottenham, let’s hope he can transfer that form to Spurs this season

• He’s elbowed him in the head, but there’s nothing in it for me.

• What a shot! That’s completely unstoppable but the goalkeeper has got to do better for me.

• Footballers these days often have to use their feet.

• It’s a good run, but it’s a poor run, if you know what I mean?

• When you train as normal, you train as you normally would.

• I know Wayne Rooney well and as that ball is coming across he’s licking his lips.

• He’s just pulling off Zouma there, which is no mean feat.

• I’m not the biggest fan of swingers.

have got two strikers on and they’re both playing upfront.

• Klopp has gone for a really strong spine in Mignolet, Enrique, Allen and Benteke.

• If Rojo wasn’t left footed he’d have used his right for that one.

• Brilliant, that’s exactly what the wall’s there for. (After a PSG freekick hit the wall)

• That’s a fantastic penalty, but he’ll be gutted it went wide.

• In the space of a wink of an eye.

• Whichever team scores more goals usually wins.

• It’s definitely hit Defoe’s hand as it’s gone in, but it’s not a handball for me.

• It’s hit the facial part of his head.

• )He looks like a footballer. (On Anthony Martial after he scored that insane solo goal against Liverpool.

• Anichebe is just pulling off Jones, which is what I would do if I was him.

• It’s definitely hit Defoe’s hand as it’s gone in, but it’s not a handball for me.

They’re out swarming them. Liverpool’s counter-attack tactics against

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• With all due respect to Leicester, nobody showed them any respect last year.

• You’re on your own out there with ten mates.

• I was on wildlife watch during my run in my garden this morning!

• That’s simple as…simple.

• You're on your own out there with ten mates.

• To stay in the game, you have to stay in the game.

• You have to believe your own eyes, don’t you?

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