Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
Even when I was growing up as a young boy, when I was playing schoolboy football, there were other guys who were as good as I was, maybe some even better technically. But I was prepared to stick to what was going to make me become a professional football player when I left school, and that was a lot of sacrifice and because my attitude was right.
When there were no kids to play football with in my local park, I would go to my grandma's factory. She used to give me £2 if I cleaned all the threads and scraps off the floor. I even learned how to sew.
I sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball.
Football is football; I don't care if you're doing it in Division II, NAIA, or in the SEC or anything in between.
I learned from Al Davis. We didn't have any secretaries. Secretaries, really, in Oakland were young football people.
I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now.
I'm not Ed Reed. I'm Eric Weddle, and you're going to get a great Eric Weddle that does a lot of amazing things on the football field. And there's no pressure; pressure is self-inflicted.
I'd followed the strange deaths of pro football players for years, sensing something odd going on.
Fighting football, not serenity football - that is what I like.
Sergio Aguero is a high-quality player. I'm a big fan of his, both of his football and his humility.
I never liked going to school and would sham and play football. I played in the centre forward position. If ever given a choice, I would love to represent Barcelona.
Sheffield has everything as far as I'm concerned and the football club is right in the heart of it.
I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.
If you want to play showy football and be noticed then mine isn't the position to pick.
I never forget my first emotions in football, in Sicily.
I grew up in a football family, on the sideline. I was a waterboy. It was kinda something I was around my whole life.
I don't if I can handle not being on the sideline and being part of a team trying to win a football game on Friday nights.
You have to be able to recognize defenses on your own in pro football. You can't look to the sideline and read some board. You've got to recognize the defense on your own, and then you've got to communicate to your offensive teammates what you want them to do.
I've learned that football is a stupid sport for intelligent people because the simplest things are truly also the most difficult to get right.
