I got a couple of front teeth knocked out during a football match when I was hit by a flying elbow.
Football is not part of that lifestyle anymore.
Unfortunately, there are no mulligans when it comes to pro football contracts.
I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.
My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.
Football lost its excitement for me.
We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.
Clearly, those of us women who play football wish that there was more coverage.
The only thing I want to be able to do is come in and learn the offense, go out there and compete, show what I am capable of doing and try to get better as a football player.
I played high school football at a hundred and eighty-five pounds and played big league baseball at a hundred and eighty-two. I'd get up to maybe 188 in the off-season because every summer I'd lose eight to ten pounds.
Surely, sport is not fundamentally about the safety of athletes. If it were, we'd probably have to ban professional football, right after boxing.
One of the things you learn in football is that you're only as good as your last outing. I don't like to reflect on what we've done in the past. I'm not a very good storyteller, for one thing. I'd disappoint you. When it's time, I'll talk about the good old days. But it's a sign of old age, reveling in the past.
More people are watching college football on Snapchat than they are on television.
The source of wealth is from individuals with little or no history of interest in the game, who have happened upon football as a means of serving some hidden agenda.
When I was a kid, I collected cactuses. I had hundreds of different kinds in my room. I was a weird child. Everyone was playing football, and I was collecting cactuses. I spent all my money on them. I had so many colors and shapes. I even gave them names.
My early memories of my dad were taking me to play football when I was six - they are happy ones. They are my favourites.
I'm not a video game guy. I would rather throw around a football.
I like the idea of being a youngish parent. So I've got energy to play football even though they'll be better than me by the time they're four.
I wish I could go to the school where my close friends go, but I obviously can't. The good thing is, they're really good about inviting me to all the football games and all that stuff. So I end up having an adopted team spirit for a school I don't go to.
I have always felt like a fish in water with football, Fox, speeches, riding horses, and raising cattle.
The real Pogba is the one you see every time. You know, when I'm on the pitch, I cannot act. I'm not an actor. So when I'm in the pitch, I like to joke and laugh, and outside the pitch, I'm the same. For me, I'm normal. I come and play football. I do what I love.
It took me a while to realize that basketball wasn't football.
Yes, in general, I think there is too much club football on TV.
Football is my profession now. I'm getting married in August... It's a new experience for me as someone just getting out of college. I still have the same attitude about football I always had. I play hard. I enjoy practice. I'd rather be throwing in passing drills than sitting around and watching TV.
You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things to learn from them in the same way they have a lot of things to learn from English football.
In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
I'm adapting quite well to English football with the same will I've always had.
It's very exciting... what DeAndre brings to the game is truly special. To have the opportunity to play with a football player like that, that's what gets a quarterback out of bed in the morning.
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.
When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.
Horses will never be my career. It's just a big passion of mine, and one that will always be there in the background, but football is my main passion and everyone knows that.
Football is a passionate game. It excites us.
I don't think it's fair to 12-, 13- and 14-year-olds to say 'Show us you're a winner right now!' Winning isn't everything. I'll never buy that thing that if a boy loses a football game, he's a loser in life.
I don't have to play football.
I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.
That's the whole part of playing football and having training camp. Coming in and recognizing how players play.
