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I played football the only way I knew. If you have the football and 11 guys are after you - if you're smart - you'll run. It was no big deal.
There's no way running on a beach or at some high school playground that you're going to get in football shape like you do when you practice.
The Barcelona youth program is one of the best in the world. As a kid, they teach you not to play to win, but to grow in ability as a player.
In football, hate can be a beautiful thing; sustaining and nourishing, quite unlike other manifestations of an otherwise destructive emotion.
Every time you'd turn on the set you'd see me eating a prune in a prune ad. My friends used to call me Prune Boy, even on the football field.
Football really felt like a private thing when I was in my teens because it wasn't on television, for a start, apart from 'Match of the Day.'
I played futsal growing up in Baurd. In futsal you need to think quick and play quick so its easier for you when you move to normal football.
When you train a massive club or little third division outfit, when you go out to play football in any situation, it is always about winning.
I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond.
I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.
I just didn't want to walk away from football without knowing what it meant to be a manager, or even wondering what it was like to be sacked.
What is speed? The sports press often confuses speed with insight. See, if I start running slightly earlier than someone else, I seem faster.
It's intense in every sport. No matter what, USC vs. UCLA is crazy. Especially when it comes down to football and basketball, it's just nuts.
I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.
I don't care about three years ago - I don't care about two years ago. I don't care about last year. The only thing I care about is this week.
We never use the condition of the footballs as an excuse. We play with whatever or kick with whatever we have to use and that's the way it is.
Although I hardly ever turn on the TV set unless it's football season, I do watch a lot of TV on my iPad - perfect for long airplane journeys.
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.
I was never someone who had a lot of confidence in anything that had to do with using your brain. I really was lost in my life after football.
I was honored to spend time with the President on an issue that is clearly important to him. I was also impressed by his wide receiver skills.
I'm comfortable with my femininity, and I don't try to change what I look like just because I'm reporting on football at the end of the night.
Well, when you're playing good football, it's good football and if you don't have good football, then you're not really playing good football.
I understand the intensity of the supporters. I wonder how they could turn up for work on Monday morning after we lost 5-1 to Manchester City.
In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally.
Damien is Damien. When I don't put him in the squad my mother, who's 84, asks 'why isn't Damien playing?' She kills me about it and that's true
If you make a fist and hold it for two hours, you won't be able to pick up a glass because you'll be so weak. Let's stay loose. Let's have fun.
I like the idea of being a youngish parent. So I've got energy to play football even though they'll be better than me by the time they're four.
It's just that with football, when you don't get the ball, you can't show your talents and that's always been something in the back of my mind.
Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior.
Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.
I'm the seventh chancellor at Vanderbilt; Bobby Johnson is the 25th head football coach. That shows a lack of commitment to attract and retain.
I'm sure if the punishment fits the crime, or is more severe, you're going to start stamping out a lot of things that are going on in football.
Today, professional football is about profit and making money. But it's not about how much money you spend, it's about how wisely you spend it.
I like Halloween. It gives you a chance to dress up like something you're not, you know? Like when the Miami Dolphins put on football uniforms.
I loved playing football. In this particular match the ball happened to hit my right eye, the only one which I could see light and colour with.
A football match should never be settled with the horror of penalties. I don't see that as a valid result. For me, there has to be another way.
My wife runs the house much better than I could so I think she could be a linesman or a referee or even a football manager and that's the truth.
I wasn't the brightest kid, not by a long shot. I was interested in football, in girls, in getting my work done with the least amount of effort.
When Andy Carroll first appeared on the scene he was a tall skinny kid and his coordination was all over the place. He reminded me of a giraffe.
Counter football is not something weak teams only can do by the way. It is sometimes said in a way as if counter football is inferior. It's not.
Some coaches spend their time trying to get an overview of all eleven defenders. I prefer to zero in on one guy at a time to get the right clue.
Passion and purpose go hand in hand. When you discover your purpose, you will normally find it's something you're tremendously passionate about.
The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.
I'm really into football, gadgets, adventurous activities, and cooking new, creative recipes right now - but you'll never catch me being boring.
Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.
Unfortunately much of it is frittered away on fast cars, designer clothes and an attitude to pleasure reminiscent of the 18-30 holiday packages.
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.
I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.