I can only say that I’ve found a wonderful spot at Borussia Dortmund, where I can play football. I feel comfortable here.
I like to play football. I’m an aggressive player and also a leader.
You know, I always wondered what it would have been like to just go to school, play football with the guys and go to the prom. Just like a ‘regular person.’
Scotland – and Glasgow – is a tough place to play football and a lot of big names have come up here and not produced.
Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing.
If I’m not playing football, I’m preparing to play football. That’s kind of how I kind of view my life.
When you know how the coach ticks and how he wants to play football, it makes the decision easier. But for the main part, I came to England because of the club Manchester United.
I just love to play football and enjoy it.
I got Osgood-Schlatter disease in my knees because my bones were growing quicker than my muscles, and it’s hard to get out on the training pitch; then, afterwards, you’re in agony every single time you play football.
Thank God I had football. I remember when it used to rain, all the kids would run outside and play football in the puddles, just splashing around, having the best time.
I’m just going to continue focusing on becoming a better football player, attacking the offseason with the mindset of getting stronger and doing everything that I can to show that when the time comes, I’m ready to play football.
I wanted to play football all my life, and when I got accepted to Florida State, it was academically – it wasn’t for any kind of scholarship. I kind of sat down and said, ‘I’m not going to make it to the NFL. I’m not the size nor the skill.’
I’m very close in age to my older brother, and we had a field at the end of the road where we could run around, climb trees, play football.
For me, you’ve got to play football first. We’re not trying to be accountants. The money takes care of itself. That’s kind of how I think anyway.
I play football like I dance.
If you play NFL football, you play football, these are the consequences. There’s choices and consequences in life for everything. There’s consequences if you play football.
Of course we all dream about doing big, playing for big clubs, but I wanted to play football because of the love for the game.
There are not many better clubs to play football for than Liverpool.
The only way to play football is with reckless abandon, or they’ll knock your beard off. And with acting, you have to pull all the stops to make it work.
My mother wouldn’t let me play football because she was afraid I would get hurt, so I played flag football.
We try to play football; don’t forget it, right. My teams always in my career try to play football. I cannot control the other circumstances.
I don’t want to play football for 15 years and not have one trophy or one medal. Sorry, that’s not what I am about. I wouldn’t be happy with that.
I still mess around and joke with my family and friends like I did when I was nine or 10. For me, nothing’s changed. Sure, I play football, but I try to keep my life off the pitch as simple as possible.
I think every American boy should play soccer till the eighth grade. Then they should play football. American football.
My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best.
I sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball.
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.
Canada’s known as a hockey country and now we’ve proven that we can also play football as well.
The women’s game has grown, but when I was playing at Arsenal, I don’t think people realised how good we actually were. I think there’s just a perception that we just play football, but we’re not very good, and it was a challenge for us to try and prove those type of people wrong.
Yeah I play a lot of ‘FIFA’ and ‘NHL’ – I don’t want to just play football, I like to mix it up.
I just loved the kind of people who play football. Definitely takes courage to play this game.
Besides my father, who used to be a footballer at the local level, it is Messi for whom I started to play football.
When I wasn’t famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.
My business is to come out here and play football.
There’s no pressure on me, really. I just want to play football.
I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength.
I played a little basketball, but basketball interfered with theater season. That’s when we did our term plays and did nutshell versions of Shakespeare for English classes. And, believe me, I got a fair amount of looks from the guys on the team. ‘You’re in theater but you can play football?’
In England there are teams that play football that I like.
I’m going to go out there and do what I do and play football, and everything will work out.
You can play football and be the next Jim Brown or play baseball and be the next Reggie Jackson.
I love to play football. And I think anybody that’s ever been my teammate or I’ve been theirs understands how much I love that.
I’ve said it plenty of times before, I do believe Molineux is the best place in the Premier League to play football. The atmosphere’s incredible.
I play football for a living. That’s my job, that’s what I love doing.
I think my reputation speaks for itself. But everybody is entitled to their own opinion, and I’m going to continue to play football – play physical football.
I remember I used to play football in my childhood and my team had people from different faiths and backgrounds. It had the son of the person who would take us to the school on his rickshaw or the guy who came to pick up our garbage but I never knew this.
I’m not even thinking about going back to play football at all. My mind’s made up. I’m done.
As a kid, I thought movies were boring. My parents would hire VHS recorders for the weekend and watch Bollywood movies. I’d get bored and go out to Stoke Newington common to play football.
I wouldn’t mind being like X-Men and having the claws. I mean, I don’t think they’d let me play football, but it would look cool.
Rather than just sit there, I would prefer to get out and play football. Brighton have let me do that.
That’s why I play football… to be the quarterback, to be the guy with the ball in his hands.
I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a ‘Let’s go play football.’
The only thing that bothers me is that I am in good health and that I am able to play football.
Every single person I spoke with, when I said I might perhaps be moving to Modena, told me how great the food is, so much so that I had to say, ‘I’m here to play football, not to open a restaurant!’
It’s very warm there, so we were outdoors all the time. The local people had programs for us year-round, where as kids we had the opportunity to play football, basketball, baseball, track and field – we just went from one sport to the next, year-round.
I lost my childhood. I didn’t play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.
In the past, we showed that we could play football, but Vladimir Petkovic has worked with us on the psychological side of things in particular. I think that’s where we’ve made the most progress. He’s brought us closer together as a team.
I have always said that the BVB style is exactly how I want to play football.
I really enjoy what I’m doing, I really enjoy my weekends watching football. I watch the kids play football and the Saturday before last I was at four games. Then I ended up watching La Liga on telly. On the Sunday I’m the same and I really enjoy it.
I have had so many things that I could say that I never thought at the time it was right so now I never say anything, I am just one of those people that kept myself to myself, I just wanted to play football and that’s all I ever wanted.
I used to play football on the streets, kicking breadfruits or oranges.
When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.
I went to North Carolina to play football.
The golf bag hurts my shoulder too much; I prefer to play football.
Really, you just play football; that’s all I can do… I don’t change. I’m going to always play tough, hard – that’s the way I was brought up at Nebraska, where I really learned football from the Pelinis and that staff and continue to play hard, play blue-collar football.
I play football, that’s what I do, and people can bet on me if they want to, and if they don’t, then their loss. Then they don’t get a share of the wealth.
