If we want the best pitcher, let’s get Bobby Feller. If want the best football player, let’s get Jimmy Brown; the best basketball player, let’s get Bill Russell. If we want the guy who can do the best job for the United States – let’s get Donald Trump.
There is a certain way that I play. You just have to have a feel for it. That’s something you have to feel as a football player.
I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I’m more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.
Coaching is always about changing. That’s the life of a football player and a coach.
I really actually started when I was 10 years old, but before that, I loved to play with Father because he played as an ex-player. I just enjoyed it, so I started at 10 years old with Father to be a proper football player.
I want to improve as a football player, but even more importantly, I really want to improve as a person.
I thought I had the potential to be a better fighter than I’d ever be a football player. Besides, it was something my father always wanted me to do. He told me since I was a little kid I was a born fighter.
The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.
It’s a competitive business, and everybody wants to be the best. And when there’s a new guy coming in, and there’s buzz about him, ‘Oh, he was a pro football player,’ you instantly have people that don’t like you because they’re afraid you’re going to take their spot.
If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.
He wasn’t a football player, but my idol growing up was Roberto Clemente. The man died trying to help out earthquake victims in Nicaragua and that left a huge impression on me.
You have to deal with a lot of things when you are a professional football player, and that is not so easy.
If I got a football scholarship, I was going to be a football player.
I am not a movie star or a football player, I just do my thing.
I think if you’re a good high school player that you have the ability to be a good college football player. If you’re a good college football then you have the ability to be a great NFL player.
I don’t have no issue with any guy. I’m a football player. I’m a competitor. When we’re in the field, we’re going to compete and be competitive. It’s not personal between none of these guys. It’s all in the game.
Once I started realizing I could lose people at the line of scrimmage, and essentially run a route on air. I figured that that was the way to go. So I just put a lot into that, and obviously I made it a big part of who I am as a football player.
I wanted to be the best football player in the world. That was my dream. Except in Sweden it’s not accepted.
Everywhere I go now, people are like, ‘That’s the guy from ‘Dancing With the Stars!’ It’s pretty good that you’re not just a football player but you’re in the entertainment world.
If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you’re going to have some kind of problem.
So much of my development as a football player and as a man has been here in New England, and it’s an honor to hopefully be able to finish my career here and be a Patriot for life.
On a foggy, steel gray Saturday in September 2002, Bennet Omalu arrived at the Allegheny County coroner’s office and got his assignment for the day: Perform an autopsy on the body of Mike Webster, a professional football player.
I’m quite a shy person, but I know I’m a good football player. That’s just the way I am. That’s the way I grew up. My grandmother brought me up, and she is the same way. She’s understated, but she knows what she’s worth.
I’ve always wanted to create. I didn’t ever want to just be a football player, so I’m just bringing all these childhood dreams together to try to accomplish the things I want to do before I die.
To me, a hockey player has to be every sport rolled into one: ice skater, baseball player, football player, etc. It’s just incredible to watch!
We get so enamored by speed, size, vertical jumps, and all these other measurables and tangibles. But what makes a great football player isn’t size or speed. Great football players know how to play the game, and they push harder than guys twice their size.
I want to be remembered as the football player I was. The private person is nobody’s business.
I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn’t given the liberty to do certain things when I was young.
Having the ball makes you a football player, not running after it.
I wouldn’t be anywhere close to where I am today without my pops. I think a lot of a football player’s makeup is mental, and I’ve been blessed to have someone to learn from. Not just from a technical standpoint, but everything he taught me about being a hard worker, a teammate and just being a football player.
If I believe that I became the best quarterback that I could possibly be, the best football player that I could possibly be… That’s how I’m going to measure my career as a success or not.
The key thing with any football player is, what can he do when he gets on the field.
Every single sport works out your body in a different way, and you can almost point out their bodies – like, that’s a swimmer, that’s a football player.
Every football player knows when his time is up.
If a football player has a bad game, he’s allowed to do that because he plays once or twice a week. With fighting, it’s once every few months.
Any time you get a chance to acquire a really good football player, I’m all about that.
I competed every day as a professional football player… You’ve got to like competing. That’s how your team gets better, when you have competition every day.
I learned how to be a smart, tough, fundamentally sound football player.
Neymar is not just a football player, he is not afraid and always responds to provocations.
Every football player has their own journey and unfortunately my injuries were out of my hands. There wasn’t much I could have done about that except rehab to the best of my ability which I did.
I have always tried and always believed in myself, so I went after it, to do my best, to achieve my dream, and I always thought I’d achieve my dream. And I always, always wanted to be a football player.
When you think of Peyton Manning, you think ‘ambassador.’ The game has grown exponentially during his career because of him and what he means to our game, not only as a football player but as a humanitarian.
I’m retiring as a football player from the University of Tennessee who played for the Colts and the Broncos and was very lucky to have played for all of them.
When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy.
People told me I was more of a soccer player, not a football player.
Coaching a football player is the same as directing an actor. The guy has to follow orders and be able to perform skillfully.
As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.
Over the years I’ve learnt to live with two persons in my heart. One is Edson, who has fun with his friends and family; the other is the football player Pele. I didn’t want the name. ‘Pele’ sounds like baby-talk in Portuguese.
I’m gonna be called Shaquem Griffin the football player, not Shaquem Griffin the one-hand wonder.
I’ll tell you what, I’ve never seen any football player more uncomfortable in a situation of having to make a one-on-one move on somebody than Patrick Mahomes in space.
I wish I had some strapping football player husband. It would be such a dream to be ‘normal’ like that, but I’m just not.
My father was an all-American football player.
Wherever I go and whoever I go play for, I’m a football player. I enjoy playing football, I enjoy the game, I enjoy being a teammate.
I think the thing about that was I was always willing to work; I was not the fastest or biggest player but I was determined to be the best football player I could be on the football field and I think I was able to accomplish that through hard work.
I’ve been the luckiest football player ever.
It doesn’t get much more Arkansas than being a former Arkansas Razorback football player.
I always say to my people, ‘If you don’t sell a Ferrari to a football player, you make a big present to me.’ Really. Because they buy to just show off. I don’t like.
I definitely grew up as a small-town… I guess you could call it the ‘small-town football player,’ according to the stereotype. I wasn’t involved in music at all.
Sometimes, as a former football player, we have to go into that away game and silence the crowd. And just let them know I am the man. I’m going to be here for a long time.
