It dates back to my dad and my uncles. They all got permits to go to Beverly Hills High School back in the ’70s and early ’80s. After they finished college, they came back and became football coaches there. So I was there with a permit.
You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn’t mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It’s just like a football season. Everything’s not going to go perfect.
I don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.
I was born in Dortmund and grew up here, so you become automatically a black and yellow. I played here for many years in the youth ranks, but at first I did not have the chance to become a professional football player at BVB and to realize my dream.
When you get beat it is the worst feeling in football, it is horrific.
There’s three parts to football: offense, defense, and special teams. You’d no more ignore special teams than you would offense or defense.
I sang the ‘Sunday Night Football’ theme song two years in a row – my first part in American culture, although I still don’t know anything about American football.
It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game.
When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I’m so grateful that actually became a reality – and it became a reality in a small town.
Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.
I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will – that’s just the bottom line.
I am completely uninterested in playing beautiful football if the team doesn’t win.
Football should never be a worry. It should be exciting. When a child plays football outside, he doesn’t need to worry. Professionals should be the same.
I’ve felt a little tired, but I’m only 24. I love playing football. That’s my job and that’s what I love doing.
In football, everything is possible, from the moment you work and you believe in your qualities.
Monday Night Football. That was everything to me because you get a chance to show everybody what you’re capable of. It’s only two teams on that Monday night.
You’re convincing these big, tough football players to wear what was essentially women’s lingerie. There was a little bit of a Jedi mind trick that needed to take place. The product really spoke for itself once guys felt it and touched it.
Of course Lothar Matthaus is always going to be associated with the 1990 World Cup. But does everyone immediately remember what titles Gunter Netzer, Johan Cruyff or Luis Figo won? Or do they also think about how those players played their football and how they led their teams?
Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.
I am the only player who has been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and am the second-best player in my family.
I’m a football player, you know? My film talks for me.
The movie, ‘Remember the Titans,’ is my favorite movie, staring Denzel Washington. I love the way in this movie the game of football brings those boys together, it unites those boys on that football field. It unites a whole town, black, white, old, young, rich and poor.
There was an offer from Tottenham when I was leaving Spain to go to Milan, and at the time, I chose to go to Milan because of their history and tradition in the world of football.
Horses will never be my career. It’s just a big passion of mine, and one that will always be there in the background, but football is my main passion and everyone knows that.
I told somebody once, ‘You don’t want the Herschel that plays football… babysitting your child. When I am competing, I am a totally different person.’
Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
Football is a passionate game. It excites us.
I love the game of football.
I like the Common Goal initiative, the vision of football as a tool for social change and the power football has to improve the world.
I love sporting events and popcorn and pizza and being outside, like at a baseball or football game. I love amusement parks, going to ride roller coasters.
We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.
Bowen is a Welsh name and the family background is more rugby than football, but we’re English through and through.
Everyone finds their little ways of getting past bad moments and everyone has them, it’s football. We get the good moments and we get stick. You can start overthinking, it’s human, everyone does it.
Football is a team sport, and each person plays a role – this is what counts.
It’s one of the amazing things about owning a football club, the way you get caught up. It’s like someone has put something in your coffee. You look around, you want to lift the place, hit the ground running.
As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me. Therefore, I never worry about tomorrow or never worry about winning or losing football games. That knowledge gives me a lot of composure in tough situations.
Just like football, business is a game of inches, where the smallest advancement or advantage can mean the difference between winning and losing.
It’s football. Sometimes it’s unfair.
I’ve never made football my priority. My priorities are my faith and my dependence on God.
People who don’t like football don’t appreciate my game, but I like it.
My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
You made it something special. Most of all, I want to thank the fans for your support not through the great times that we shared on the football field, but for the last 17 years of my life. You have supported me through all times.
You have to play football to entertain the fans.
I think players tend to get anxious if they’ve not really done things properly – like eating, resting or training. If you’re fully prepared you’ve got nothing to worry about – it’s just a game of football.
If you have only one passion in life – football – and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.
I love football, it’s my life.
With the big clubs embracing women’s football and the professionalism you see at the likes of Liverpool, Birmingham, Arsenal and my club Chelsea, it’s really impressive. We’re making great strides.
I enjoy going on hikes, and I enjoy the occasional yoga. The one thing I’m good at athletically – and I don’t know if I’m good at it anymore because I haven’t done this in a while – I can throw a pretty good spiral in football, but I have no idea how to play.
Certainly, our work has identified CTE in many professional football players, but we’re also seeing it in a very high percentage of college players.
In Germany, the football association is the best.
I don’t really like the business side of football, but I just like adding good players to our football team.
Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan – and he knew the game, which still astounds me, but I have always had a soft spot for him because of it.
Football, to me, is a passion, more than a game. It is everything. But more than anything, it is love for Roma. I have always been Roma. There has never been anything else.
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.
Everything I have experienced and learned in football led me towards one day becoming a coach.
I think college football is a reflection of Middle America. You go into a college football town, and you will find three generations of a family sitting together. It’s a rallying point for the university, the community, and the families.
When I was growing up we didn’t have cable. All that came on Saturday morning was Notre Dame football, and I was there every time to watch it.
I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.
My dad told me, ‘If you’re going to go out there and play baseball, or you’re going to play basketball or football, work hard at it no matter what. I want you to have fun with your buddies, but you have to put in the time because this is your craft.’ He didn’t just want me to be good. He pushed me to that next level.
The football field was a place where I could express myself and just be me. Play the game as well as you can and that’s what you’re judged on. Not the colour of your skin, or your beliefs, or the conversation you have around racism.
I was cycling until I was 68. I used to play football, cricket, tennis, table tennis. I was into road walking – heel and toe.
