This is how I started playing: I was playing hooky one day, and the coach and the principal walked up behind me. They scared me, and I ran, and they noticed I could run really fast. They wanted me to come out for the football team.
The name of the game is 'kill the quarterback.' Every football team tries to knock the guy out of the game that's handling the ball.
It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.
If everyone's on the same page, doesn't matter what race, what background, what religion you are, if everyone comes together like a good, solid football team, baseball team... that's how you win games. It's easy.
You don't meet many comics who came from rich families or were captain of the football team and had a nice car.
I grew up in Vermont, so we didn't really have a TV, growing up, or a football team.
The World Cup focus is football. Team U.S.A. is more than football.
To be able to get a football team that's capable of competing for world championships, you always got to get a little bit lucky, but you got to have all phases to win it all.
I used to play against a high school football team that always used to run the single wing. And eventually, other teams figured out that they ran the single wing. And so they prepared for it. The Democrats are stuck running the single wing.
The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.
I was writing very early, like I was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'Pariah.' The football team was the Bears, and the literary magazine was 'Pariah.' It was great. It was definitely a real sub-culture. But I wrote stories for them.
You would not want me on your football team.
It's really an organizational job with a football team to watch them go through their day.
I'm passionate about owning a football team in my hometown.
At the end of the day, I'm a footballer who has played at some of the biggest football clubs in the world and played with some of the best players in the world.
I think medically, football is generally well looked after. There are always checks made. Anything which can be done to make footballers or sportsmen of any area safer has to be encouraged.
When I was a kid, I never thought much about football. I thought about following in my family's footsteps and going into professional wrestling.
Every league has its own culture, its own identity, and its own type of football. It's very physical in England, but technical skill comes to the fore in Spain, where everybody wants to play beautiful football. The standards are very high in Germany, too; the teams are physically strong, very disciplined, and very well organised.
I was just stunned when I came to America. I didn't know anything about rock music or football, and I felt very out of it... America was like a foreign country to me at first.
Football was much, much more than I hoped it would be. If I dreamed as a kid, I could never have foreseen such amazing things.