Top 40 Michael Owen Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Often the biggest test is when the chips are down and you’ve got to stick together as a team.”

— Michael Owen

2. “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.”

— Michael Owen

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

— Michael Owen

4. “To stay in the game, you have to stay in the game.”

— Michael Owen

5. “You need people who score goals. That’s how you win games.”

— Michael Owen

6. “You’re on your own out there with ten mates.”

— Michael Owen

7. “You always come back to earth with a thump at some stage. Life has it’s ups and downs; the acid test is how you handle the downs.”

— Michael Owen

8. “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.”

— Michael Owen

9. “If you cut me in half, I’m a footballer.”

— Michael Owen

10. “A new club is like having a new girlfriend – you don’t have feelings straight away.”

— Michael Owen

11. “I can’t believe anyone can have played the game of football as well as Messi.”

— Michael Owen

12. “Everton have a healthy list of injuries.”

— Michael Owen

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

— Michael Owen

14. “I was born to score goals, I feel.”

— Michael Owen

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

— Michael Owen

16. “I wouldn’t change my life for the world at the moment.”

— Michael Owen

17. “I have a great family, good friends, a nice girlfriend, my own house. I have got everything how I want it to be.”

— Michael Owen

18. “There’s nothing quite like a World Cup.”

— Michael Owen

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

— Michael Owen

20. “Best atmosphere I ever played in was at Celtic Park in the UEFA Cup for Liverpool.”

— Michael Owen

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

— Michael Owen

22. “When you put better teams in front of you, that’s when the big players rise to that occasion.”

— Michael Owen

23. “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.”

— Michael Owen

24. “England have players who can rattle anyone’s feathers.”

— Michael Owen

25. “For me there’s nothing better than putting the white shirt on for England and playing for England. I’d get worried if it wasn’t like that.”

— Michael Owen

26. “The better the opposition put in front of you, the better your team plays.”

— Michael Owen

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

— Michael Owen

28. “My Dad was briefly an Everton player and I used to follow them as a boy.”

— Michael Owen

29. “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.”

— Michael Owen

30. “I have always been confident that I would make it to the top.”

— Michael Owen

31. “The Spanish league is fantastic, but it has not the great passion the English Premiership has got.”

— Michael Owen

32. “Henry had taken striking on to a different level.”

— Michael Owen

33. “I want to be a top-flight football player, so I lead the life that enables me to be that type of player. I prefer to be seen in a decent light rather than an indecent one.”

— Michael Owen

34. “All Newcastle fans need to know is that I will be giving everything for their cause now.”

— Michael Owen

35. “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.”

— Michael Owen

36. “It bothers me when I don’t score.”

— Michael Owen

37. “Scholesy was a genius, absolute genius. He was a center-forward’s dream, you could make a run and he’d put the ball perfectly in your path. Any footballer you ask will always tell you that Scholesy was one of the best players they’ve ever played with.”

— Michael Owen

38. “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.”

— Michael Owen

39. “I’ve always been a player that likes to get round the back and get crosses in for other people. When I first burst on to the scene some people only saw the goals I was scoring. More recently they’ve taken notice of the goals I’ve set up. It is nice to be recognized for that.”

— Michael Owen

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

— Michael Owen