Both of my sons used to coach high school football. When they started, I’d say things I shouldn’t have. So I learned my lesson.
The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.
You dream of your first NFL start when you’re a little kid, playing football in the backyard, but until you get there, you never know what to expect.
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.’
I think Together #WePlayStrong is a big step for football. This project is about building interest and professionalism and making younger women want to play football at a high level.
The football field, I’d definitely say that’s my safe place.
Football is a game with tight results in which you don’t need to be the dominant team; if you’re a bit lucky and make the right decision at the right time, then you can be as successful as well.
I had two offers coming out of high school in football and with more resources and things like that it could have been 20.
I enjoy every moment of playing for Real Madrid and naturally, I give it everything I’ve got. I do all I can to make sure the fans enjoy the football and that Madrid are always at the top, which is where they belong.
I was an athlete growing up. I was a wrestler, I played football, so I can take a fall. I actually wanted to be a stuntman when I was kid, so I would practice falling down the stairs. It’s just something I like to do.
Everyone is different but I love to watch that type of football: the clever players, the technical players. The beautiful game.
Norway has a great history of women’s football, but it’s harder now. We’ve stopped talking about development, and other countries have overtaken us.
Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.
The best thing that I did was get myself out of an environment that was toxic to me and to my mental health. That was through retiring from football.
My brother was the one who really gave me the desire to follow in his footsteps. Also, it was really Ronaldinho and Ronaldo, the two Brazilian players, who also inspired me to a future in football.
In football, time and space are the same thing.
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.
I love football, but being away from it is tough.
That’s what international football is all about – be able to bounce after a bad performance.
Basketball is my favorite sport, and I’m also a very passionate football fan.
I think it’s absolutely absurd that we’re playing on turf, and it’s really a slap in the face to women’s football by FIFA and just a show of disrespect.
As a guy from Northern Ireland who supported Celtic and worked in football, I’m living my dream here.
Brazil versus Argentina is always a great game, with great football and scoring chances.
People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don’t want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life.
People always think they know better. In football, everybody thinks they can be head coach and do it better. It’s the same in F1: they always know better, even if they have no experience of it.
I fell like I’m a well-rounded football player.
I come from a little town of 7,000 people, and everyone in my family played football.
Racism – whether it’s in football or society, there’s absolutely no place for it.
I’m sure there were concussions galore back when we played, but the doctors would just say, ‘Shake it off,’ or something like that… or ‘Come on, you got to be tough… get back in there.’ I see so many guys who played pro football in their 50s now who are so debilitated from having played it.
That is the way it is in football: once a scorer, always a scorer.
Football boots are very technical and have lots of specific requirements.
I know what I’m capable of doing. I just want to stay fit and healthy and let my football take care of itself.
I used to play football at school, and I enjoyed really physical sports, but I now try to avoid any sports that might build up different muscles. That might have a negative impact on my archery.
I try to live football every day.
I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.
After choosing football so many times, I feel like I’m inclined to make the right decision by finally choosing my family first, and that’s real talk.
In football, strength can only succeed when mixed with agility, balance, speed and intelligence about what’s going on around you. But, without strength, I wouldn’t be here.
I think a big part of success in football is mental, not physical. How you are inside your head matters more.
I lost my childhood. I didn’t play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.
I play football in training all the time with my male friends, who are also professionals. But playing together in competition? I just don’t see it. We have the ability, we have the technique, we have the tactical understanding, but there are physical limitations. You can’t get away from that.
Football was a dream, an opportunity once taken from me – something I thought I’d never be able to do again.
Kids in the city can play cricket, badminton, tennis or football. Athletics is not their cup of tea.
Football is a game of opinions, and some people have a great opinion of me, and some people probably think I’m absolutely useless.
Football wasn’t invented until the Premier League, we all know that.
Football sometimes goes up and down, and we need to accept the result.
If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we have kicked off after the interval, and we are going to carry the ball into enemy territory for a smashing victory.
If other people think I’m okay looking, that’s great, but I don’t see it myself. When I look in the mirror, all I see is a bunch of fake teeth and football scars.
I’m delighted to join Huddersfield Town Football Club, ahead of what I’m sure will be a really exciting season and I can’t wait to get started.
I don’t have to rely on my athletic abilities to get by. I actually understand the game. I know the game of football. I know how to read DBs, I know how to read defenses – little stuff like that, that I didn’t have in 2011.
I got scars on my face that tell some kind of story. I’m looking in the mirror, and I got one scar that’s really two scars – half from a baseball bat and half from playing football in college. I’ll tell you, though, after a while, your face gets so wrinkled up you can hardly see them.
The star-jump technique – that is a big part of being a handball goalkeeper, and I brought that move into football. It is a very effective way of saving a chance.
Wayne Rooney and Michael Owen form one of the best attacking duos in football, both are very quick and deadly.
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
Among players, coaches, people who know football, yes I feel I get recognition.
Liverpool is one of the superpowers of world football.
I don’t see myself being able to stay away from football.
I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.
Champions League football in the Premier League – you’re talking about the top, big, massive clubs, and it’s not something I think I’d get linked with.
My real name is Bob Davis, but for some reason, I got the name Jasper while playing football at the local rec when I was nine years old, and it just stuck. Years later, when someone asked ‘Jasper who?’ I just said ‘Carrott’ – but I have no idea why I came out with that particular word.
You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.
The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.
I want to play the football I feel.
It’s weird… people say they’re not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?
In football, I’m not so old. At 52, maybe I have 20 years in front of me to coach. But I feel myself as… you might say an ‘old fox.’ Nothing scares me; nothing worries me too much. It looks like nothing new can happen for me.
Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
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.
The most difficult thing in football is to score a goal.
When you go out on a football field, you are responsible for taking care of yourself. The more rules you get, the less players truly take care of themselves.
