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My mother really wanted me to go to school and to university, but I was adamant that I wanted to be a football player.
Everyone's got talent at the level we're at. But being a smart, tough football player - there's a huge premium for that.
I wish I had some strapping football player husband. It would be such a dream to be 'normal' like that, but I'm just not.
I'm a football player by trade. That's what I do, ... So I did everything I could to make myself a football player again.
Everybody doubts themselves. Every writer doubts themselves, every artist doubts himself, and every football player does.
The thing about a small town is that there are people who just remember me as a musician, as a high school football player.
The night I got drafted to the A's, obviously it was a great day of my life, but I've been a football player my whole life.
Coaching a football player is the same as directing an actor. The guy has to follow orders and be able to perform skillfully.
As a football player, as an athlete, as a competitor, that dream of playing the Super Bowl... I was never going to lose that.
I don't say I'm necessarily a professional football player. I'm a competitor. That's what was instilled in me as a young boy.
You're going to hurt, yes. You're going to have tweaks and problems. But you're a football player; you can play through those.
Physically I was not strong enough to play at Celtic and I know myself it was not my best time as a football player, for sure.
If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.
I'm going to make a difference in other people's lives because who I am as a person rather than who I was as a football player.
I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.
There is a certain way that I play. You just have to have a feel for it. That's something you have to feel as a football player.
My father never bragged on me as a football player or when I started ! wrestling. But I always knew he was there if I needed him.
One of the great things about being a professional football player is visiting countries and seeing cultures you might never see.
I was not a very good football player. My coach hated me - I don't know why, I guess it's probably because I wasn't very talented.
What I will miss the most about Guardiola? His obsession with the game and his knowledge, which makes you a better football player.
Your primary job is to be a football player, and you've got to accomplish that task before you go out and do anything else, really.
All the Asian people respect me and watch me. But I don't want people to think of me as an Asian player. I am just a football player.
Wherever I go and whoever I go play for, I'm a football player. I enjoy playing football, I enjoy the game, I enjoy being a teammate.
As a football player, your mentality is that you're going to win the Super Bowl. You have to think that when you're playing the game.
As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.
I had to have help getting up these stairs because I've been tackled by so many lions and tigers. Really. I'm like an old football player.
I think I do a pretty good job of not letting things distract me from what I want to do and what I want to accomplish as a football player.
I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
I wish football, as a culture, bred more than just a football player. It has the ability to be an incubator and transition players properly.
My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.
If a football player has a bad game, he's allowed to do that because he plays once or twice a week. With fighting, it's once every few months.
To me, a hockey player has to be every sport rolled into one: ice skater, baseball player, football player, etc. It's just incredible to watch!
I feel fortunate that there was a place like the CFL where I could hone my skill and become a consistent football player and have a nice career.
As a football player, as an athlete, as a competitor - that dream of being able to play in the Super Bowl, you're never going to let that one go.
I have friends in other industries but if I am training for a wrestling match, I would turn to the best wrestler to train, not a football player.
People assume cheering in the NFL is mostly about a girl trying to snag herself a big, beefy, stinkin' rich football player. That is not the case.
This pro football player once sent me 100 teddy bears, asking me to fly to one of his games and go to dinner. I didn't do it - it was just too weird.
Everything I am I owe to Sterling Sharpe. He made me a better football player, a better father, and a better man. He was, and always will be, my hero.
It took me a couple years to get over the stereotype I was letting myself get caught up on, being a football player trying to start a career in music.
When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy.
The one thing I learned early on as a football player is people have their opinions, and I can't change them. But I can show them what they're missing.
Every single sport works out your body in a different way, and you can almost point out their bodies - like, that's a swimmer, that's a football player.
I am a great football player. I had my own club when I was 14 years old. Football is in my blood, and I have been a fan of Fulham for the last 30 years.
The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinist, football player - has to be the best. Why not me?
I always wanted to become a football player, and I thank my parents, as they helped me so much to realise this dream. They always supported me on my path.
Bavaro's probably as tough of a - physically and mentally as tough a football player as I've ever coached. So, I would put him in the rare category there.
But my instinct as a football player is always to try and grow and try and improve and I think I can do this by joining a big club such as Manchester City.
It won't change that I'm an Olympian if you call me a football player, and it won't change that I'm an NFL player if you call me a track and field athlete.
It's grossly unfair to judge Walter Payton solely on the yards he gains. He is a complete football player, better than Jim Brown, better than O.J. Simpson.
Over the course of my career, I'm trying to win Super Bowls... I am an NFL football player now, and I'm going to try the best that I can to be the best one.