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I was so obsessed with football that you could say I was taking the goal home with me at night. And then one day the system fell apart.
I play a lot of sports. I played football for 12 years, I like tennis, I surf, I snowboard, and I ski. I always like to do an activity.
On the weekends I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.
I believe that if I committed to basketball, I could make an impact in the NBA. I now see football as my job and my greatest challenge.
You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.
In football you always get judged on your last game. Whoever you are, or how amazing you are, it's the last game that everyone has seen.
That boy don't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don't know the meaning of a lot of words.
I never said I want to be the football guy. But when that opportunity started to become real, I said, 'Okay, let's see where this goes.'
If you have the ball, you must make the field as big as possible, and if you don't have the ball, you must make it as small as possible.
I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American readers.
I had a brilliant relationship with Thomas Tuchel. We spoke a lot, not only on the surface, but really deep about football and our work.
There's an invisible army of woman and men who really don't get why we give so much of ourselves to football. And they need to SPEAK UP.
The speed will increase and the players will be better, but also the players around you will be a lot better. It all cancels itself out.
I don't know if that result's enough to life Birmingham off the bottom of the table, although it'll certainly take them above Sunderland
With no one collecting his knockdowns, what was Crouch supposed to do, juggle the ball with his head until the midfield support arrived?
I hated my mom for not letting me play football as a kid. So when I have kids someday, I guarantee they'll never meet their grandmother.
When I was playing for tips in college, I felt a fire in my soul. I had the same principle of focus that I had learned playing football.
The decisions I've made have not always been the most popular, but when I look back, I want to know I've played for good football teams.
I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players.
There are two kinds of people in the world, Notre Dame lovers and Notre Dame haters. And, quite frankly, they're both a pain in the ass.
He can't kick with his left foot, he can't head a ball, he can't tackle and he doesn't score many goals. Apart from that he's all right.
I've got a great life that I really enjoy. But there is something chewing at me inside: that adrenaline rush from football, I miss that.
I almost never watch TV, except for '60 Minutes' and pro football. I love Drew Brees, the Manning brothers and the Steelers' linebackers.
It's to remind our lads who they're playing for, and to remind the opposition who they're playing against. (on the 'This Anfield' plaque)
Nobody was ever going to tell me that I didn't belong on a football field. And nobody was ever going to tell me that I couldn't be great.
I believe I have a lot to offer when I finish football as well. I always said I didn't want to become a manager, but I changed that view.
There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.
When I was 10, I knew there was something different about me. Everyone was football-mad, but I just wanted to watch musicals and see art.
I know I can play, but people who haven't seen me and look at me on a football pitch think, 'He's tall, and he's there to head the ball.'
Football means everything to me. It's been my life from four years old onwards. It's given me the best moments of my life and the lowest.
Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.
I think at some point during the course of the game, I will have an impact - whether it's blocking or whether it's catching the football.
In football, you can never say anything is certain. The benchmark is 38-40 points. That has always been the case. That will never change.
If people are standing up there saying, my football team just won with help from God, then obviously God just pissed over the other team.
On Platini's presidential watch... he has to balance all the leagues, all the dreams and needs of hundreds of clubs across his continent.
The RAF allowed me to play a lot of football, but like England later, they failed to recognise real talent when it was under their noses.
Anytime that the Arizona Cardinals play football, I scream at the top of my lungs at the television. And I have certain dances that I do.
When the Olympics and World Cups come around, that's when you see the real outpouring of support that there really is for female football.
You can say that strikers are very much like postmen: they have to get in and out as quick as they can before the dog starts to have a go.
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until the day before his anniversary to buy his wife a gift.
I have always had this necessity to win. When I played with my friends on the street, football or running, I always wanted to be the best.
I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don't do anything at all. So I was a bit of loner, being interested in music.
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.
In New York now, they have Harvey Milk High School for gay students. They don't have much of a football team, but the half-time show . . .
No one coaches what to do after three seconds, after the quarterback's broken the pocket or he's been in the pocket for five, six seconds.
Each decision will be done on a case-by-case basis and we'll make the decision we feel is best for the New England Patriots football team.
Arsenal could have happened, as everybody knows, but I would not do a trial. Who do you think regrets that more - Arsene Wenger or Zlatan?
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.