When I got heartbroken at 20, it just felt like someone had spiraled a football right into my skull. At 40, it feels like someone had driven a 757 right through me.
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.
There are few secrets in football. So execute.
I love football; I enjoy it. That's why I've been in this game as many years as I have. I still like it. I get excited about it.
Many people agree with me that many things are not clear in football these days and it is not something people who watch football deserve. The situation will be the same while football is run by people who do not understand football.
I'm passionate about owning a football team in my hometown.
Each game we approach like a final. Today it was the opening game at home, we won and showed outstanding football qualities. We will be preparing for the next game the same way.
This pro football player once sent me 100 teddy bears, asking me to fly to one of his games and go to dinner. I didn't do it - it was just too weird.
Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.
The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.
I didn't play soccer; I played that other football in grade school through college.
I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.
Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.
There's no doubt about it; playing football and how tough it is on the body afterwards.
Playing in the National Football League, you're told, you know, where to be, when to be there, what to wear, how to be there. Being able to step away from that, I have an opportunity to look deeper into myself and look for what's real.
My construction business represents 10 or 20 times what I'll ever invest in football. But from the moment I bought the Chargers, I would become forever known as the owner of that NFL franchise.
When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.
Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.
I enjoy going on hikes, and I enjoy the occasional yoga. The one thing I'm good at athletically - and I don't know if I'm good at it anymore because I haven't done this in a while - I can throw a pretty good spiral in football, but I have no idea how to play.
If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
Football is what keeps me going, what makes me prosper, and what will keep me straight.
Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.
When Klopp speaks about his football being heavy metal, I understand completely. It is so aggressive. For the fans, it is really good.
I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem.
If you don't want to play clean football then go up into the stands.
If you don't win a Super Bowl, you're not considered successful in the National Football League. I can remember, when we finally won that first one, feeling so good for the players and fans.
You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It's hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football. You can't keep your team together, and you are going to have more changes all the time. Personnel decisions aren't always made by you, especially who you bring to your team.
I was OK in school, but I always missed a lot because I was playing so much. But if I'd stuck at it, I imagine that I'd be doing something financial or economical. Finance always attracted me, even though maths was always a bit of a love-hate relationship. I would have tried playing football, but I don't think I'd have made it.
I play football, and most football players are camera shy. We just want to be left alone; we just want to stick to what we do.
Ever since Pele's extraordinary talents blessed the world of football, black footballers have been accepted in the pantheon of the greats. But to achieve commercial recognition is somewhat different: it requires a form of adulation that also spells identification and role model.
Racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in football.
Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.
It's easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they're all at home. In basketball, they're on the road all the time.
The music I like or the football teams I like or the food I eat has nothing to do with me being black.
I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor.
I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.
