The majority of the time I’m at home with my family, I play football three times a week.
I want to play football. Whether that will be at Manchester City or somewhere else, I do not yet know.
It’s quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.
Anytime that the Arizona Cardinals play football, I scream at the top of my lungs at the television. And I have certain dances that I do.
When you play football, you want to see something like a trick play or something that is very exciting. You want to give the crowd something to be happy about.
Wolfsburg might be a smaller club when you look at reputations and I thought about it long and hard. I could have stayed at Chelsea. Mourinho told me that I would get my chance. You have to make a decision, though, and in the end I only wanted to play football again.
Within a day of wearing the insoles, my feet felt more comfortable, and a week later I was able to go for walks, play golf, and play football with my son, which I hadn’t for years. The insole is sculpted to the foot and manipulates it into the correct position, preventing damage to the plantar fascia tissue.
When you play football in the Premier League, everybody is watching.
I love playing football. So I go out to play football, and I don’t really feel pressure. Of course, there are some days when things just don’t work out as well as they do on other days, but that doesn’t have anything to do with pressure.
At the start, you don’t earn a great deal, so you have to work other jobs if you want to play football. When I was at Doncaster, I couldn’t solely do football. I had to work; otherwise, I wouldn’t have been able to live.
I’ve got five grandkids. They play baseball, they play football, they play basketball. I go to all the games. You always have that urge to say something when you’re watching them. But I’ve learned to keep it to myself. I’ve blurted out some things and embarrassed myself.
My two younger brothers play football as well and they are obviously pretty talented and my two older brothers like to sing and I obviously can’t do that.
The most important thing in Guardiola’s theory is to play football, and this always stays the same. The basic idea is always the same, but different opponents offer different space which you can use to play in.
My senior school didn’t play football. It was a rugby and cricket school, and as I was on a sports scholarship, I was forced to play rugby.
When I play football, I try to win the game. That is part of me. That is who I am.
If you play football and fans are booing or saying negative stuff, it makes me play better.
I was raised on an estate in an inner city school where people had a go about my size, people saying I am too big to play football – which still happens today – and I used that to inspire me.
You just manage. It’s all about balance. You have to play football and be professional. You come home and you have family life.
I try to enjoy the moment, I like to play football, and every time I go on the pitch, I try my best.
I give my best every day in training and in games; this is the only way that I know how to play football.
I have always said I want to work harder so I can develop, learn, grow, and improve. I love to play football, and when I come on the pitch, I want to do my best to help the team. It’s up to the coach the position I play.
If you have a negative model, you do negative things. If you have a positive model, like Guardiola, who says positive things and tells you to compete on the pitch and to play football, it’s much better.
I played football and lacrosse in high school. They wanted me to play football at Amherst, which I did not do because my schedule was full enough as it was. But over the course of my student days, I played pretty much every sport out there.
I want to try to have fun as long as I can and play football at a high level. I do not know how long that will go on.
I have been playing football since I was eight so I know how to play football. But no-one can really prepare you for the mental side of things and having 40,000 fans saying you’re not a good player or you don’t belong.
Going to play in India at the end of my career was particularly special. I never thought I would get the chance to even visit India, let alone play football there.
My parents were great at making sure I got out of bed when I needed to play football on a Sunday morning and that I was ready after school to go to training on a Tuesday and Thursday. But it was never forced upon me or rammed down my throat. If it had been, I could have ended up hating sport.
I play football like chess. You have to think a lot and anticipate what could happen after you make your move.
I come to Fulham on loan, they haven’t paid anything for me. I’m just here to play football and they see that I want to give everything. I get the feeling that they give me something so that I can be at my best.
I just want to play football. I love the game. I love everything about it.
I used to go play football matches in the morning, and I’d go straight from me football game to a dance competition.
I have made mistakes and just have to live with it, but at the end of the day, I just want to play football.
Everyone thinks if they have a problem, the first thing they want to do is play football and enjoy themselves.
You play football to enjoy the game and the manager wants to be happy on the sidelines watching unbelievable football.
It was always my dream to go to LSU and play football.
My mum made me do kick-ups in the living room. My sister even tried to play football. Everyone was trying to help me.
Just go out there and play football. Don’t make it bigger than it has to be.
It’s easy to play football when everything is going well and you are winning games back to back, winning, winning, it’s the best feeling ever, you can go out there and express yourself you feel like you are not going to make mistakes.
Personally, I love training, and getting paid to play football is incredible. Playing the game and working hard is what I have always dreamed of doing.
Women are the same. We watch football; we play football. Why wouldn’t we be out there giving our opinions on the sport ,too?
I don’t have to play football.
It is not my intention to break up teams at local grassroots clubs – but to make sure every kid gets an opportunity to play football for free.
When you have to play football, you do it in the knowledge that there’s a lot riding on the match, be it money, your team-mates, or the feelings of the fans.
I just want to be seen as a kid who loves to play football and to do the best for the team.
Cris Carter and Randy Moss – they’re the guys who made me want to play football and be a receiver.
I had zero opportunity to play football over the years.
Understanding why we are here, what we are supposed to be doing, relationships, and striving to do more other than play football – when you get understanding like that and apply it, it works wonders.
It’s one thing to play football in this league and make a living, but it’s a totally different thing to come to a place with a rich tradition like the Bears.
It’s difficult when you start to play football. My boots were much worse.
I went to college to play football, not to study it.
I didn’t want to go to college, I didn’t want to play football anymore, and I kind of just goofed off for about a year and a half.
I play football, not to only enjoy it – and I love the challenge of playing and competing with the best players – but I want to have the chance to win games.
I started my cooking ‘career’ aged 15, almost 20 years ago. At the time it was quite a shock suddenly working 75 to 80 hours a week, without time to play football or other sports.
Honestly I knew from the very youngest age that I was going to play football, then coach, then die. I never thought about a deviation from that plan.
A lot of people see somebody who has one hand and not two, and they think it doesn’t make sense. It’s like, ‘He has one hand, so how can he play football?’ What if I say, ‘You have two hands. How can you play football?’
My job is to go out there and play football. My job is to go out there and win football games.
I always thought that I could play football at the college level.
I’ve always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I’m an actor, but felt sorry for me because they’d never seen anything I’ve done.
My dream is to play football as long as I can and that’s what I want to do.
I remember not wanting to play football because I didn’t want to get my hair wet.
I think it’s all about confidence and having a regular run in the team. The rest takes care of itself; a footballer never forgets how to play football, and I’m convinced that game time, matches, was all I needed because, ultimately, no one forgets how to score goals.
The saddest day of my life was the day I didn’t get to play football anymore.
I like to smile. I try to bring happiness on and off the pitch. I don’t understand how you can play football without joy.
