I feel the time is right, I want to spend more time with my young family and concentrate fully on my career [on retiring from international football at age 30
There's just a big, empty football field that's supposed to be filled with monsters that I haven't even thought of.
No score in the other game betwen top club and bottom club, Switzerland and Georgia.
He runs a very tightly knit ship
My father watched football with the sound off because he lived in fear of hearing the voice of Howard Cosell.
At times, European football can be very slow but it speeds up in the final third.
Football is the most important thing in my life, but I do have a life outside football and this is one part. The TV, the music, the fashion - it all goes to make up Rio Ferdinand.
Football is my job, not my life, but it's a job I'm going to give my all for as long as I'm in it.
The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun.
I led the NFL in attempts the past two years and they really didn’t go out and get a quarterback to help me so I knew it’s going to be all on me again. I could see my mortality as a football player, that I’m not going to be able to do this much longer. It just became obvious to me that playing football for me is not going to be fun, not something I’m going to enjoy and it’s time for me to do something different.
Playing in the National Football League, you're told, you know, where to be, when to be there, what to wear, how to be there. Being able to step away from that, I have an opportunity to look deeper into myself and look for what's real.
I am more mature. I'm a better football player. I just feel like this is my time.
We heard the army before we saw it. The noise was like a cannon barrage combined with a football stadium crowd- like every Patriots fan in New England was charging us with bazookas.
My vision of being a professional, as opposed to being a football player before, has completely changed. Being a pro is doing everything right all the time. It sounds cliche, but if you apply that to strength training, if you apply that to a lot of body work, if you apply that to making good decisions, all the work I did on myself and all the time I spent with therapists and doctors and family, that was my mantra: "Do it right all the time." It started to build momentum, and it started to build up steam. Once I got the opportunity to come back and play, I just kept using that and it helped.
Governments have supported airlines as if they were local football teams. But there are just too many of them. This is the only industry I know that has lost money consistently and makes money infrequently.
Africans are not as tall as northern Europeans. But Manute Vol and other sports figures in basketball and football receive a lot of press coverage.
Someone wanted me to write a profile for ESPN about the commissioner of baseball, and I said, "He's just some suit! Some Republican. No!" I mean if you want me to write about baseball, boxing or football, I'll write about those things because I watch them, I think about them a lot and I like them. But I don't want to write about Barry Bonds.
I play football, and most football players are camera shy. We just want to be left alone; we just want to stick to what we do.
Fabregas literally carries 10 yards of space around in his shorts.
Scoring three away from home - you can't do better than that.
If you were in the Brondby dressing room right now, which of the Liverpool players would you be looking at?
Martin Jol has put his hands on his heads.
I like college football a lot, because it's the dream that you're chasing. The dream of one day possibly making it, with the harsh reality that only one percent make it.
You can talk about what you see from the outside; it's hard to tell me who I am when you're just looking at me with a football uniform on. That's a totally different person. That's my job, that's it.
I don't train for football; I train more for a lifestyle.
