The same thing I applied to football, I applied to trying to be an actor and hopefully it came off well.
I've gotten to watch a lot of football games. Growing up, watching sports, watching people compete, whether it's my brothers or teammates. I grew up observing and taking it all in. It's kind of my attitude.
Keeping fit is really important as playing football is all I've ever wanted to do.
Anybody who knows me knows I'm passionate about American football. I gave this game everything I had. In college, that's what I looked to do. Everything. Everything for so long, and all you hear growing up is that hard work pays off, hard work pays off, hard work pays off.
Baseball is not like football, basketball where a momentum is something made. You don't really have that kind of momentum in baseball.
You're going to have injuries, danger and glory in every sport. What makes football unique is that every person on that team needs to count on everybody else. It's the ultimate team game and you have to depend on your coaches, you have to depend on your support staff, you have to depend on your teammates.
One single great player doesn't make anything for a team; it has to be a team. I think [American] football is the greatest team sport there is because you have to depend on your brother next to you.
There's more to distract people, isn't there? When I was a kid there was music and football and clothes. And that was kind of it, really. Those three things defined you as a person.
There's just a big, empty football field that's supposed to be filled with monsters that I haven't even thought of.
I love football. I really love football, As far as I'm concerned, it's the second best thing in the world.
I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.
My favorite football team is the Bears because my favorite player is on there, Devin Hester. I love the whole team, though. But that's just my favorite player.
There are visible and invisible dictators. The power structure of world football is monarchical. It's the most secret kingdom in the world.
If you play football, theres going to be a 100 percent injury rate. Something is going to be bothering you. So I just try to focus on the things that I can do to help my team.
I like to read the papers. I make my living from football, and I like to know what's going on.
If you dont live, eat, breathe, football, then youre not a true football player. You just wear the jersey.
Football players are misunderstood. They arent the dumb jocks people think they are.
Football is the No. 1 sport in America.
We might have the worst bunch of guys together we've ever seen as a football team. I don't know what anybody else has, but I'd trade mine with anybody, sight unseen.
I was just different. When the other kids gravitated to football or basketball I went fishing and skating. I was into trapping animals, pheasants and squirrels. Not only was I trapper. I was a taxidermist.
Football is a violent game. We are violent men.
I hate perception. There's far too much of it in football
Jonny Evans plays sort of international football with Northern Ireland
Messi is much more than being clever. He is a genius who reserves all his expressiveness for football.
I'm very about football and very about my job, which doesn't get reported or won't get reported, but I am going to enjoy my time off. That's I think what everybody else does, and that's what I should do.
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