You know, I'll tell who's really embraced football is Austria. Austria's really embraced football.
In the auto industry, I spent years perfecting processes. Now, the successes and failures don't get the kind of publicity obviously NFL football does.
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 have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?
Whenever I think of baseball, the first name that comes to mind is Babe Ruth. What the Babe was to baseball, Shula is to football coaching. There are certain figures in sports who are larger than the games they play or coach, and Don Shula is one of those.
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 is oneness in action. When played well, it is unity on display. Players come from different races and different backgrounds. However, when they get on the field, they harmonize their differences toward a common goal.
I like tricks; I like to dazzle. Dribbling and leaving your opponent on his backside is what life is for. If I achieve what I want to, then I'll mark a distinct era in football. I'm the Che Guevara of modern soccer.
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.
I didn't play organized football until I was in the seventh grade. Up until that point, I only played at recess and in the backyard.
Everybody wants to portray the bad boy, the Johnny Manziel stuff, but I love the game of football. There's no doubt about that.
I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen as the real bad boy.
If a football player has a bad game, he's allowed to do that because he plays once or twice a week. With fighting, it's once every few months.
In knockout football, it's one bad game and you're out.
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.
That's what international football is all about - be able to bounce after a bad performance.
In football, there are good and bad times, but if you are a great side, you can be confident of winning trophies again.
I was a child who was interested in sports, and represented my school in football, cricket, badminton and table tennis.
It is hard to compete with other sports. Badminton is a sport which, when compared with football and tennis, still needs promotion.
