I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I’ve grown as a person so much.
I don’t say I’m necessarily a professional football player. I’m a competitor. That’s what was instilled in me as a young boy.
Honestly, like, American football is not that big over in the U.K., so we hadn’t really heard of Drew Brees before. I did know that he was, like, a massive football player. He’s a massive star, so I was still a little bit anxious and nervous to meet him.
If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.
I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
I think TE is the most unique and diverse position. It’s the most fun position because it’s the only one on the field where you get to do everything that a football player does. You run block, you pass pro, you get to run routes and catch the football. We do everything!
Pele has all the qualities and characteristic that a football player has to have.
Once you’re a football player, you’re a football player for life. You always think of yourself in terms of that. We all do. It’s hard to get rid of when you can’t play anymore.
Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he’s got to play from the ground up – from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.
I believe that, deep down at heart, I’m a football player.
It’s a lot of fun watching Kelvin Benjamin out there grow and develop as a football player.
But my instinct as a football player is always to try and grow and try and improve and I think I can do this by joining a big club such as Manchester City.
As a football player, your mentality is that you’re going to win the Super Bowl. You have to think that when you’re playing the game.
You have to have faith in your own qualities; that is part of being a footballer: being strong in your head. That is more than half of the quality you need to be a football player.
One of the best things if you are a football player is to see the faces of the kids, when they see you and are dreaming of being like you one day. That’s a big responsibility, to be a good image for those kids. A football player is more than just a football player.
It’s none of our business, the sexual preference of people. So, I hope if someone’s thinking about it, that if they do come out as gay and are a professional football player, and it makes them happy, and it makes their life easier, then I think they should do it.
I was a football player at college and dislocated my thumb. I was out for a bit and passed the theatre and saw some lovely drama students walking into an audition for ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ and thought: ‘That’s what I’ll do when I recover.’ I joined that production and was hooked.
I’m in the public eye. I’m a celebrity and a football player.
I’m very proud because, all my life, I worked very hard to be a football player.
I can walk into Walmart in California and not really get mentioned for being a football player.
I’m a football player, you know? My film talks for me.
When you go into a game, and there’s something that was drawn up the way it was supposed to be drawn up, and you missed the throw or the catch, as a receiver, it’s something where you feel bad about that. You can always regret just missing it, but as a football player, you have to move on to the next play.
I’m not a star. I am a football player, a team player.
As a football player, as a kid and as a professional athlete the moment of playing in the Super Bowl and winning a Super Bowl, that’s what you play your whole career for.
I play for pleasure, for the passion that I have as a football player.
My mother really wanted me to go to school and to university, but I was adamant that I wanted to be a football player.
What I will miss the most about Guardiola? His obsession with the game and his knowledge, which makes you a better football player.
I’m strong, but my arms are skinny; they’re never going to get big and bulky like a football player.
Something that’s Crunk is off the hook. It’s popping, it’s going down if it’s Crunk. A football player listening to his Walkman as he’s getting ready for the game, jumping up and down, he’s Crunk.
As a football player, you must have a big ego to respect yourself. So if you are a good player, you must say that you are good. You need to have the confidence.
I was a competitor as a football player and I’m a competitor as a coach.
Everything I am I owe to Sterling Sharpe. He made me a better football player, a better father, and a better man. He was, and always will be, my hero.
My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us – clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
I was an average football player in college.
I just want to be someone that a football player can look at and say this guy dominated on the field and was able to transition and do just as well. I feel we need more of that.
My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.
As a grown man, as a football player of my caliber there are situations… I could have done better, I should have done better.
Dealing with bullies when I was in sixth and seventh grade has made me a better football player, believe it or not. You have to come to a point when you’re like, ‘I’ve had enough, and I’m not going to be kicked around and pushed around anymore.’
I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.
I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.
It’s a dream for every football player to play in the Premier League; the atmosphere, the stadiums are always full.
From middle school to the first year of high school, I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They’re the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers.
In the NFL, if you make the play or you don’t make the play, you’re just a football player who did or didn’t make the play. You don’t get more yards or less yards based on what you’re labeled as by society.
Football was a wonderful experience for me. It was a means of, oh, I don’t know, sustaining for much of my youth. In times of trouble, I’ve always had football. I always knew I was a football player. And that was a comfort on many occasions.
A pro football player is lucky. He has a chance to meet a lot of people and make some potential business connections.
I’m surrounding myself with people who want to do what I want to do, which is be a football player.
You have to be smart as a football player.
At 13, I was a big, totally uncoordinated, hopeless football player. I responded to somebody else’s rules, and I stayed just good enough to get a scholarship to Columbia, which was looking for scholar-athletes.
A lot of sprinters aren’t football players. I’m a football player. That’s the difference between me and a sprinter. My knowledge of the game. I’m totally different than any other track guy.
Maradona, I think, is not a football player but he’s something different. He was unbelievable.
Your primary job is to be a football player, and you’ve got to accomplish that task before you go out and do anything else, really.
I think every child in my town wants to be a football player.
I feel fortunate that there was a place like the CFL where I could hone my skill and become a consistent football player and have a nice career.
I went to Everton, and it’s levels – the higher up you get, you are under more and more scrutiny as a football player. You have to learn to deal with it at that scale and gradually progress to be able to deal with it at an even higher scale.
As a football player, you would like to play each match.
The thing about a small town is that there are people who just remember me as a musician, as a high school football player.
I was a not-big-enough, not-fast-enough football player who wanted a little bit of an edge on the field. I figured my own sweat, if I could get that off my body, and more importantly, the weight that stood behind it, that would help.
Kiko Alonso is a tremendous football player.
People think this is easy to be a football player. They only see the summit but they don’t see the ascent, which is far longer and tougher than the career peaks. And there are so few of us to reach the summits. Some might earn €305,000 per month but there are a lot more for whom life is hell.
The night I got drafted to the A’s, obviously it was a great day of my life, but I’ve been a football player my whole life.
My dad was a football player, and I’ve been the same size since eighth grade, so I get how it can be hard when you don’t fit in with the ‘normal-size’ girls, or your butt and legs are too big for normal-size jeans.
