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Football is not always as glamourous as some might imagine, as the story of the first time I signed Marouane Fellaini perhaps illustrates.
Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.
That win means so much. They got back into the game but I think we showed today that we want to go to the wire. We want to go all the way.
Football is not a game for the weak of heart, because every day you've got a hundred reasons to take all those pads off and say, 'F-k it.'
But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet. (telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football dorm had destroyed 20 books
Holland I think is the best school to learn football. I think its a great league for that because it's not the strongest league in Europe.
In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.
I don't think there is any place in football for drinking. I have said on several occasions to players: You don't put diesel in a Ferrari.
Football has never left me. I still wake up in the morning and think of the operating room like a game, like it's showtime, let's perform.
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
I watch NFL football on Sundays. I enjoy gaming with friends, meaning role-playing games; I still enjoy going to conventions and traveling.
There's three parts to football: offense, defense, and special teams. You'd no more ignore special teams than you would offense or defense.
How lucky I was to have played for the Pittsburgh Steelers fans. A proud, hard-working people, who loves their football, and their players.
I love people. I wanted to be with the people. I wanted to give something back what I get from football, because God gave everything to me.
The NFL draft is going to be this Thursday. That's a huge night for college players. That's the night they start being paid over the table.
I have come to know well that fates are fickle in the business of English football. And I feel that I have pushed mine well past the limit.
The only thing that's running well in Bulgaria is the Bulgarian Football Union. Unlike the BFU, many footballers here don't run, they limp.
I am gagged and imprisoned. I can't even speak. I want to kick a football in a park with my son. Ordinary, banal life: my impossible dream.
Phew am exhausted. Just read about something called "the offside rule". Too much for my tiny brain. Must be damaged from nail polish fumes.
The biggest family in the world is football, because football has more associate - and FIFA, for example - has more associates than UNESCO.
My youth coach told me he'd got these two great 15-year-olds. I told him I don't want to know, because by the time they're 18 I'll be dead.
I have a great family. I can call them and they don't want to talk just football They want to find out how my day went outside of football.
There are visible and invisible dictators. The power structure of world football is monarchical. It's the most secret kingdom in the world.
There is always scope for football to be more charitable but a lot happens already. Personally I have always been passionate about charity.
Once that was over, I knew that my ties to a football organization would be over because I never wanted to coach or be in the front office.
No, no, I'm a lowbrow. I read [Dostoevsky] more out of obligation than enjoyment. For enjoyment, for me, it's a beer and the football game.
Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise.
The last time I saw something that tall standing so still for so long, it was perched on the edge of a cliff shining a light across the sea.
You know, I want to be the uncommon one. I think it's pretty cool that I'm only 5'11, you know, and playing in the National Football League.
College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.
Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me.
Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.
I used to tell the players that professional football is a part-time profession. I used to tell them it gets you ready for your life's work.
The game is just, everybody talks about baseball, but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.
I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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.
I'm really normal. I play football, go to the beach, drive. We have dogs. I can imagine people calling me a character, but I'm Joe Straight.
A message to the best football supporters in the world. We need a 12th man here. Where are you? Where are you? Let's be having you. Come on!
The rock has strange powers. When you rub it, and run down the hill, the adrenaline flows. It's the most emotional experience I've ever had.
When it's over, it's over is part of football's greatest appeal to me. When a game ends, win or lose, it's time to prepare for the next one.
I think in China, they know you have to have a solid nationwide plan. It does not help to have a football hotspot in the north or the south.
You can't really get into regular football after you watch Australian rules football because it's just two different ends of the totem pole.
I liked to play against all the teams in the National Football League or the American Football League, because they were always a challenge.
For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.
There is always going to be competition. When you play for a top club, you're going to attract top players. It's part and parcel of football.
I like our whole team. That's the biggest thing about football. It's got to be your whole team. It just can't be one side carrying the other.
I sent my Christmas wishes to him, but he didn't answer. He's the world's best coach, but as a man he still has to learn manners and respect.
Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.
I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.
Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.