I've always believed since I was a kid that God was gonna allow me to play professional football, to use it as a platform to proclaim and live out the name of Jesus. And, you know, that's the most exciting part about my life because God has done things in me to change my character to benefit the kingdom.
Probably no one here knows I coached a football team - a service team - playing against Georgetown. I think it was in the fall of 1924 Lou Little was your coach, and he beat us. But it was a very happy circumstance, because it brought me the friendship of another man, Lou Little, who to this day remains my very warm associate and friend.
I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.
Football, fraternities, and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.
To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played the game.
Do you play football for Pittsburgh? Then why are you such a Steeler?!
It's a bit disappointing when board members who don't know a thing about football are making decisions on your career. When you look at it you've got coaches, senior players and CEO's who wanted me but then it gets to a board meeting and you've got fat businessmen who are making the decision on your career. It was frustrating and it made me a bit angry.
It's all about the climate. I had a long discussion about it when I went to Scotland to see Andy Roxburgh. I worked with a Scottish youth side and had them do the same drills I would do in Italy. I realised that, between the wind, the rain and the cold, there was no way they could do it. How can you possibly teach anybody anything in those conditions? To me, it's pretty obvious and it explains why Brazilians are more technical than Europeans and, in Italy, the further south you go the more technical they are.
I would like to compare football and cinema. I think it's very similar. It's two games. . . different games. You have to work very hard and find the confidence to enjoy it on the pitch or in the film.
I love you more than the pool hall, but not as much as football.
[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air. . . Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.
Lampard picks his head up and knocks it out to the wing.
Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.
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.
Once the game begins, I play to that song in my head. I run to rhythm, and that allows my mind to be free.
Football is the most successful cult, in terms of members and profits, in human history. Oh wait, there's also religion.
My reality was that if there was a defenseless player, if that person didn't touch the ball, I would not hit them. I was not going to strike you if you didn't have an opportunity to get the ball.
Since the Drive-Bys are involved, I'm sorry, folks, I just never, ever do I accept anything, I don't care what. If it's football, if it's the space program, if it's anything, I automatically do not believe it.
At Barca we trained every day with the ball. I hardly even took a step running without a ball at my feet.
I am very aggressive and very physical. On the field, I guess I am just plain mean.