If you're mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It's about the same.
The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.
At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.
Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.
I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that's playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time.
Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet.
Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
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'd give all the champagne I've ever drunk to be playing alongside him in a big European match at Old Trafford.
The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.
Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.
When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.
You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line.
Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.
I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.
Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.
If you're not frustrated that you're not playing football then you shouldn't be playing football
Everything I have achieved in football is due to playing football in the streets with my friends
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