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Even as a child I was obsessed by the prospect of playing football. Nothing else ever interested me....
ALESSANDRO DEL PIERO When I was growing up as a kid I was playing football or baseball or something else in the back yard...
BRIAN WELLS![]()
I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interes...
JOHN MALKOVICH![]()
Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.
BURT BACHARACH I was playing backyard football wanting to play organized football, but my mother wouldn't let me.
CARNELL WILLIAMS I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.
STEPHEN CHOW I attribute my entire football career, as far as getting me started, getting me interested, keeping ...
BOB LILLY Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.
WAYNE ROONEY As much running as I have been doing, nothing is going to get me in shape except playing the game of...
JOE JUREVICIUS He didn't just played catch with me, he taught me technique and even some plays when I was like 5 ye...
TYLER EBELL I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football.
LES FERDINAND I'm thinking about it, ... I was supposed to play football when I first came here. That was what I w...
WALLACE SPEARMON I was just planning on making a big play. I was just out there playing football and we needed a spar...
QUINTON JONES I've played this game since I was in second grade, and there's nothing more important to me ...
AUSTIN SEFERIAN-JENKINS I played football first. I love football. I'm a die-hard Broncos fan. I loved football, but in t...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS It was nothing but fun, having fun out there. You really like to enjoy yourself while you're playing...
BRIAN SIMMONS He just loves playing football. We need more guys like that. He just loves playing football. He does...
ERIC YARBER I wasn't really interested in girls. Only football. I was just enjoying football all the time. T...
PAUL POGBA I don't wish that I was playing football. I love baseball, and the way I play is like it's m...
BRYCE HARPER Both teams were playing hard. As a defensive coordinator, it was a good high school football game.
MARSHALL OVERLEY With me, it's just about playing football. I look at it like, when you're a kid, you're just out the...
JOSEPH ADDAI There was one time when I was on a (fast) break and their guy just tackled me. He just grabbed my by...
GEORGE HILL When I was playing football, I was getting up to 240 pounds, and they wanted me to get to 260.
BILL FAGERBAKKE I started playing football when I was in seventh grade, but I just didn't like it, and I liked socce...
MIKE SANTIAGO![]()
Nobody really doubted me playing football, making it to the NFL. I was like, 'I know I can do th...
NATE ROBINSON I was playing baseball but thinking about football. My heart wasn't in it.
QUAN COSBY I have always been around it (football coaching). It has always interested me.
BILL SHIRK Pro football wasn't as popular as it is now. When I came out of college, I had no idea of playing pr...
DICK HOAK![]()
Most people would say safety was my best position. To me, the biggest challenge and most gratifying ...
RONNIE LOTT![]()
Football was a wonderful experience for me. It was a means of, oh, I don't know, sustaining for ...
TOMMY LEE JONES He was just so much more intense than everybody else. Lube played football like it was his heart and...
BILL RENNER He was just so much more intense than everybody else, ... Lube played football like it was his heart...
BILL RENNER![]()
My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football...
IAN MCSHANE My sisters have always been supportive of what I've done, except for playing football. Because I got...
BOB BRUNO Football is so barbaric. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by playing it. I feel almost like I ...
BRIAN BOSWORTH We just didn't play 60 minutes of football, or 65 minutes, of football, or whatever it was.
ALEX BRINK Football is important to us. Clearly, Presbyterian brought the sixth football member to the table. T...
KYLE KALLANDER![]()
As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot. When we were playing in th...
BARRY SANDERS I haven't thought about doing anything else other than being the head football coach at Valley West....
ED MICHAELS![]()
I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.
ALAN SHEARER![]()
The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.
TOM BRADY![]()
I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school...
GABRIEL LUNA![]()
I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I never really had a job. I was a football player, then a foo...
JOHN MADDEN![]()
My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playin...
RICKEY HENDERSON I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested...
ED O'NEILL This was the greatest football team that was ever put together.
DAN ROONEY I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a differen...
CAM GIGANDET![]()
No star playing, just football.
KNUTE ROCKNE![]()
I like sports. I'm a big football fan. When I was a kid, I was a... I don't even know how to...
BRIAN DENNEHY When we walked ... into the stadium, I got a whiff of the smells and you could hear the buzz, it was...
TODD HOINESS I wasn't the brightest kid, not by a long shot. I was interested in football, in girls, in getti...
THOMAS J. SARGENT It was just terrifying … even the fact that they knew I was involved in Celtic (football club), th...
CHRIS WARD It was a lake, ... Instead of quicksand, it was quick mud. But the conditions were the same for both...
ERIC KNIGHT I was kind of torn between playing music or playing college football. I was going to college and rea...
BRANTLEY GILBERT If you were ever to interview me after a football game or at a football game or around me during foo...
KEYSHAWN JOHNSON Right before I did it, everything went silent and the next thing I know I'm just watching the ball g...
JASON GORE There was so much more to Reggie than just football. I can remember coming in as a freshman, and her...
BRUCE WILKERSON I think she was just a victim of convenience. She worked with the football team as well. She was alw...
LT. RUBEN DIAZ When I was a child, it was my dream to be a professional footballer. When I was 14 I visited Milan&#...
ANDRIY SHEVCHENKO I don't think I could ever describe myself as unlucky because people would look at me, playing f...
JERMAIN DEFOE They had a nice scheme going. It was to be physical with me at the line, not let me get into my rout...
RANDY MOSS A few things conspired against me. The club (Lierse) got a new coach and I got a knee injury that si...
ARCHIE THOMPSON These kids are the future of the National Football League. They're the next generation that will...
TROY VINCENT Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there...
ED O'NEILL I didn't realise how my life was changing. When I was 17, 18, 20, I didn't realise how big f...
FERNANDO TORRES I'm very pleased but I was not too worried about the result as I just wanted the lads to get back to...
BRIAN HOWARD Today was a good day because I think the weather was very conducive to defense. It's like playing fo...
MIKE ARCHER![]()
I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball an...
CATHERINE BELL When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was ab...
VICTOR CRUZ![]()
I played a lot of football, and I was a goalkeeper, but I didn't really like playing in goal.
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON While Richard was listening to music in the basement, I was out playing baseball and football, and p...
KAREN CARPENTER![]()
As a child, I was very active. I was a gymnast, I played touch football, netball and basketball. Whe...
MIRANDA KERR Reggie looks good walking across the parking lot. I always told him even if he got hurt playing foot...
DONNIE VAN HOOK I take football as an avenue to different opportunities. Football is not using me; I'm using foo...
ADRIAN PETERSON![]()
If I got a football scholarship, I was going to be a football player.
COLIN KAEPERNICK They had stuff to say at the bottom of the pile. I don't think it was anything personal, it was just...
HUNTER CANTWELL Dance kind of was always just a part of my natural state as a child. It's something that, whenev...
MISTY COPELAND This is the best I?ve ever felt in my whole life playing football -- in my whole life. Even college,...
DEION BRANCH When (Dobie) came by my house to recruit me, it was more just him hanging out with my dad than talki...
ERIK GUSTAFSON Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football.
ROGER MILLA The calls keep coming but at the moment there is nothing that really tempts me, ... I was tempted wh...
CHRIS KAMARA A lot of things affect the game: the wind, the weather. The passing game isn't going to be as crisp ...
ANTONIO PIERCE![]()
I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing ba...
DWYANE WADE![]()
All my life, I've been right next to a football field. I never knew nothing else.
BOBBY BOWDEN![]()
When I got there, there were two sides: business and football. Business I understand. It was pretty ...
SHAHID KHAN I won't even begin to discuss it as a football match because it wasn't.
JOHN ADSHEAD Meeting Jack was a pivotal moment for me. I was trembling with nerves, but he's just a sweet, smiley...
RONA RAPHAEL I've lived most people's dream by playing football.
FABRICE MUAMBA The sending off was a turning point to a certain extent. For me it is not even a sending off, it was...
EIDUR GUDJOHNSEN I love football and have a passion to help kids learn and see them grow and develop. I lost my dad w...
JEFF CALLAHAN![]()
The first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith's 'What It Was, Was Football.' ...
RON WHITE It's tough. I'm pretty surprised. I felt as though I did everything I could do. . . . I felt great w...
DREW HADDAD![]()
There's nothing wrong with having Carolina and Seattle in there. As a football fan, the four best te...
TERRY BRADSHAW![]()
To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played th...
JERRY RICE![]()
To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, ... it was about the way I playe...
JERRY RICE![]()
Football and me have never got on. My instinct and love for the harder end of contact had always mea...
NICK FROST I knew it was going to happen. Some guys in that league are all about ego, but Carnell is just about...
TOMMY TUBERVILLE![]()
I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.
BJORK I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.
BJöRK It was crazy. This was a football game.
BRENT SOPEL
ALESSANDRO DEL PIERO When I was growing up as a kid I was playing football or baseball or something else in the back yard...
BRIAN WELLS
I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interes... JOHN MALKOVICH
Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football. BURT BACHARACH I was playing backyard football wanting to play organized football, but my mother wouldn't let me.
CARNELL WILLIAMS I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.
STEPHEN CHOW I attribute my entire football career, as far as getting me started, getting me interested, keeping ...
BOB LILLY Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.
WAYNE ROONEY As much running as I have been doing, nothing is going to get me in shape except playing the game of...
JOE JUREVICIUS He didn't just played catch with me, he taught me technique and even some plays when I was like 5 ye...
TYLER EBELL I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football.
LES FERDINAND I'm thinking about it, ... I was supposed to play football when I first came here. That was what I w...
WALLACE SPEARMON I was just planning on making a big play. I was just out there playing football and we needed a spar...
QUINTON JONES I've played this game since I was in second grade, and there's nothing more important to me ...
AUSTIN SEFERIAN-JENKINS I played football first. I love football. I'm a die-hard Broncos fan. I loved football, but in t...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS It was nothing but fun, having fun out there. You really like to enjoy yourself while you're playing...
BRIAN SIMMONS He just loves playing football. We need more guys like that. He just loves playing football. He does...
ERIC YARBER I wasn't really interested in girls. Only football. I was just enjoying football all the time. T...
PAUL POGBA I don't wish that I was playing football. I love baseball, and the way I play is like it's m...
BRYCE HARPER Both teams were playing hard. As a defensive coordinator, it was a good high school football game.
MARSHALL OVERLEY With me, it's just about playing football. I look at it like, when you're a kid, you're just out the...
JOSEPH ADDAI There was one time when I was on a (fast) break and their guy just tackled me. He just grabbed my by...
GEORGE HILL When I was playing football, I was getting up to 240 pounds, and they wanted me to get to 260.
BILL FAGERBAKKE I started playing football when I was in seventh grade, but I just didn't like it, and I liked socce...
MIKE SANTIAGO
Nobody really doubted me playing football, making it to the NFL. I was like, 'I know I can do th... NATE ROBINSON I was playing baseball but thinking about football. My heart wasn't in it.
QUAN COSBY I have always been around it (football coaching). It has always interested me.
BILL SHIRK Pro football wasn't as popular as it is now. When I came out of college, I had no idea of playing pr...
DICK HOAK
Most people would say safety was my best position. To me, the biggest challenge and most gratifying ... RONNIE LOTT
Football was a wonderful experience for me. It was a means of, oh, I don't know, sustaining for ... TOMMY LEE JONES He was just so much more intense than everybody else. Lube played football like it was his heart and...
BILL RENNER He was just so much more intense than everybody else, ... Lube played football like it was his heart...
BILL RENNER
My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football... IAN MCSHANE My sisters have always been supportive of what I've done, except for playing football. Because I got...
BOB BRUNO Football is so barbaric. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by playing it. I feel almost like I ...
BRIAN BOSWORTH We just didn't play 60 minutes of football, or 65 minutes, of football, or whatever it was.
ALEX BRINK Football is important to us. Clearly, Presbyterian brought the sixth football member to the table. T...
KYLE KALLANDER
As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot. When we were playing in th... BARRY SANDERS I haven't thought about doing anything else other than being the head football coach at Valley West....
ED MICHAELS
I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football. ALAN SHEARER
The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player. TOM BRADY
I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school... GABRIEL LUNA
I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I never really had a job. I was a football player, then a foo... JOHN MADDEN
My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playin... RICKEY HENDERSON I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested...
ED O'NEILL This was the greatest football team that was ever put together.
DAN ROONEY I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a differen...
CAM GIGANDET
No star playing, just football. KNUTE ROCKNE
I like sports. I'm a big football fan. When I was a kid, I was a... I don't even know how to... BRIAN DENNEHY When we walked ... into the stadium, I got a whiff of the smells and you could hear the buzz, it was...
TODD HOINESS I wasn't the brightest kid, not by a long shot. I was interested in football, in girls, in getti...
THOMAS J. SARGENT It was just terrifying … even the fact that they knew I was involved in Celtic (football club), th...
CHRIS WARD It was a lake, ... Instead of quicksand, it was quick mud. But the conditions were the same for both...
ERIC KNIGHT I was kind of torn between playing music or playing college football. I was going to college and rea...
BRANTLEY GILBERT If you were ever to interview me after a football game or at a football game or around me during foo...
KEYSHAWN JOHNSON Right before I did it, everything went silent and the next thing I know I'm just watching the ball g...
JASON GORE There was so much more to Reggie than just football. I can remember coming in as a freshman, and her...
BRUCE WILKERSON I think she was just a victim of convenience. She worked with the football team as well. She was alw...
LT. RUBEN DIAZ When I was a child, it was my dream to be a professional footballer. When I was 14 I visited Milan&#...
ANDRIY SHEVCHENKO I don't think I could ever describe myself as unlucky because people would look at me, playing f...
JERMAIN DEFOE They had a nice scheme going. It was to be physical with me at the line, not let me get into my rout...
RANDY MOSS A few things conspired against me. The club (Lierse) got a new coach and I got a knee injury that si...
ARCHIE THOMPSON These kids are the future of the National Football League. They're the next generation that will...
TROY VINCENT Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there...
ED O'NEILL I didn't realise how my life was changing. When I was 17, 18, 20, I didn't realise how big f...
FERNANDO TORRES I'm very pleased but I was not too worried about the result as I just wanted the lads to get back to...
BRIAN HOWARD Today was a good day because I think the weather was very conducive to defense. It's like playing fo...
MIKE ARCHER
I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball an... CATHERINE BELL When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was ab...
VICTOR CRUZ
I played a lot of football, and I was a goalkeeper, but I didn't really like playing in goal. KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON While Richard was listening to music in the basement, I was out playing baseball and football, and p...
KAREN CARPENTER
As a child, I was very active. I was a gymnast, I played touch football, netball and basketball. Whe... MIRANDA KERR Reggie looks good walking across the parking lot. I always told him even if he got hurt playing foot...
DONNIE VAN HOOK I take football as an avenue to different opportunities. Football is not using me; I'm using foo...
ADRIAN PETERSON
If I got a football scholarship, I was going to be a football player. COLIN KAEPERNICK They had stuff to say at the bottom of the pile. I don't think it was anything personal, it was just...
HUNTER CANTWELL Dance kind of was always just a part of my natural state as a child. It's something that, whenev...
MISTY COPELAND This is the best I?ve ever felt in my whole life playing football -- in my whole life. Even college,...
DEION BRANCH When (Dobie) came by my house to recruit me, it was more just him hanging out with my dad than talki...
ERIK GUSTAFSON Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football.
ROGER MILLA The calls keep coming but at the moment there is nothing that really tempts me, ... I was tempted wh...
CHRIS KAMARA A lot of things affect the game: the wind, the weather. The passing game isn't going to be as crisp ...
ANTONIO PIERCE
I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing ba... DWYANE WADE
All my life, I've been right next to a football field. I never knew nothing else. BOBBY BOWDEN
When I got there, there were two sides: business and football. Business I understand. It was pretty ... SHAHID KHAN I won't even begin to discuss it as a football match because it wasn't.
JOHN ADSHEAD Meeting Jack was a pivotal moment for me. I was trembling with nerves, but he's just a sweet, smiley...
RONA RAPHAEL I've lived most people's dream by playing football.
FABRICE MUAMBA The sending off was a turning point to a certain extent. For me it is not even a sending off, it was...
EIDUR GUDJOHNSEN I love football and have a passion to help kids learn and see them grow and develop. I lost my dad w...
JEFF CALLAHAN
The first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith's 'What It Was, Was Football.' ... RON WHITE It's tough. I'm pretty surprised. I felt as though I did everything I could do. . . . I felt great w...
DREW HADDAD
There's nothing wrong with having Carolina and Seattle in there. As a football fan, the four best te... TERRY BRADSHAW
To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played th... JERRY RICE
To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, ... it was about the way I playe... JERRY RICE
Football and me have never got on. My instinct and love for the harder end of contact had always mea... NICK FROST I knew it was going to happen. Some guys in that league are all about ego, but Carnell is just about...
TOMMY TUBERVILLE
I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in. BJORK I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.
BJöRK It was crazy. This was a football game.
BRENT SOPEL
Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say ... 
Scientists and inventors of the USA (especially in the so-called "blue state" that voted overwhelmin... 
When a friend, then, indulges in the joy of unburdening a secret on to another friend's bosom, he ma... 