What I do as an individual player is only important if it helps the team to win. That is the most important thing.
An important mentor for me, in terms of teaching me that there's a right way and a wrong way to do things, was probably my football coach. And playing football was one of the first times in my life that I realized nothing is given to you. You have to work really hard.
I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling - that was my real love.
To me, attacking football happens when Makelele gets the ball and passes it to the central defender who passes it to the right-back who comes forward and judges the situation. If he can do something he passes forward or runs with the ball, if not he gives it back to Makelele who builds the attack again. That is attacking football. In England attacking football is giving the ball to Makelele and having him hit it forward no matter what, even if everybody is marked.
I would say that the quality of each man's life is the full measure of that man's commitment of excellence and victory - whether it be football, whether it be business, whether it be politics or government or what have you.
The first half has gone how I almost half-anticipated.
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.
Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.
Football has always been a stepping stone for my education.
I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for.
It's as if there's a magnet on the outside of the posts and bar.
It flew towards the roof of the net like a Wurlitzer
Today, the Ravens answered: What is our identity? 'We are the same old team. We can play the same style of football.
For me football is more about making the right pass at the right time.
However good an English team is, they will always have an additional advantage. It is that European players know that their English opponents will come at them in the belief they will win, and they can always be guaranteed never to stop fighting. They have a natural aggression that they are born with. If it ever goes, English football will lose its most valuable dimension.
I always thought I could coach. I just thought people were poor judges of good coaches.
Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.
Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
That could have been his second yellow card - if he'd already got his first one of course
I wanted to play football and see how that went. In my mind, I knew I wasn't good enough to be a pro, but I was having a really fun time doing it. When you're on a college team, you can tell who's going to be a pro or not almost instantly.