My four older brothers were my favorite players. That's why I got into football and sports.

Right now, I am a football player and I will sacrifice whatever is necessary to be the best.

If you understand what the other team is trying to do to stop you, it makes your job easier.

I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.

I could have played football for two or three more years. All I needed was a leg transplant.

Every club he's been to has had great injury crises. Every club. And it's always hamstrings.

Our lives are quite boring. I spend a lot of time watching Coronation Street and Eastenders.

I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world

It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.

Football comes naturally to me, but basketball is a challenge, that's why I like it so much.

Leeds is a great club and it's been my home for years, even though I live in Middlesborough.

There are two things every man in America thinks he can do: work a grill and coach football.

I'm a strong believer that you practice like you play, little things make big things happen.

I've always just loved to play football, even if it was street football, like razzle-dazzle.

It gets like this in Liverpool when you're on the ferry and the sun reflects off the Mersey.

I wear sunglasses because of the glare of spotlights. I wear gloves because it is very cold.

I don't think the NFL had the slightest intention of taking me, except as maybe a water boy.

If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.

Next year we have to be even better. If we want to be a big club this has to be one of many.

High school football in Detroit was not easy at all. There were talented players everywhere.

There was a time when I thought, 'God, this whole football thing might not work out for me.'

I feel like it's God's plan for me to play football and make a difference in people's lives.

I would like to lose some of the weight that I have put on since I stopped playing football.

If Glenn Hoddle had been any other nationality, he would have had 70 or 80 caps for England.

When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do.

It was important to be with a coaching staff that didn't just believe in my football ability.

I like to let my football do the talking, I'm respectful of other good teams such as Arsenal.

My folks, I don't think my mom or my dad ever missed a little league game or a football game.

Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.

I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat.

We cannot allow the reputation of football and FIFA to be dragged through the mud any longer.

I've always been connected to football, but for some reason, there's never been a connection.

Football is pretty much played 16 times a year, where training is kind of a year-round thing.

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.

I don't dream football. I dream the American Dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.

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

Drogba is a fighter. He is the kind of player I would say 'With you I could go to every war.'

I haven't heard from Elvis since his daughter married Michael Jackson. I think it killed him.

Manchester United are substituting Blomqvist for Giggs just to bring more legs into the game.

Football is my life, and I cannot imagine myself doing anything other than playing this game.

I think the officials and NFL owners are playing to the type of game that people want to see.

Nothing compares to Rome. Nothing. People there are crazy about football - in a positive way.

You need players that stand for emotion in football. Football today is a game for television.

Whether I played marbles, whether I played football or slam anything else, I wanted to excel.

In high school I was the manager of the football team, so being around boys is natural to me!

The stuff I went through at Auburn? It didn't matter anymore. I just wanted to play football.

Just when you feel like hauling him off and strangling hin, he gets some goal out of nowhere.

Sometimes I do feel a little pressure, but not that much because we play different positions.

Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

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