I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.
Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?
I've been fortunate and blessed to further my career in the Arena Football League, and I've had a good time doing it.
There were moments when I wondered at the gossamer veil that stops licence from being libel. I suspect that taking on the job of England manager puts you outside the protection of the courts. It must be part of the job description that you will be held hostage by media speculation and can have your character tortured, molested and finally executed at the public whim, in exchange for a lifetime's supply of money.
I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength.
Football isn't necessarily won by the best players. It's won by the team with the best attitude.
Football is the kind of game where you have to really segregate kids from the general population and kind of colonize their minds. It's more intense and demands more than other sports. And this is why the folks who are involved (as players, coaches, boosters, fans) are so much more devoted to it. It's really a cult, when you think about it.
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.
On game day, I'm as nervous as a pig in a packing plant.
If my mother hadn't thrown my football boots on the fire, I might have become as famous as Denis Compton.
If we're not on them, they go back to their old ways.
Football is my love. Football is what I'm going to do. I'm a football player first.
What makes a good coach? Complete dedication.
Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
Governments have supported airlines as if they were local football teams. But there are just too many of them. This is the only industry I know that has lost money consistently and makes money infrequently.
We're so concerned about being polite in society, and rightfully so, that it carries over onto a football team. But on a good football team, they are your friends, but first and foremost they have to be good teammates.
As a young man God blessed me with a special talent to throw a football.
Achieving Champions League football is the minimum requirement and always the most important thing for [Dortmund Borussia] club. Beyond that, we want to win a trophy. Maybe the German Cup, because we've reached the last three finals, but haven't won one, so that's a big motivation for us.
Thomas Gravesen thinks he's broke his hand, but I told him that you play football with your feet and not your hand.
Villa will probably play a lot worse than this and lose.