I'm in great shape, back-in-my-football-days shape. I've worked hard to get to this point.
I went to Dartmouth College, graduated, and had the opportunity to play two professional sports - I played for the New England Patriots in the NFL and professional lacrosse for the Boston Blazers. I had an injury, so I had to stop so I could heal. But when I was playing football, I wasn't making a lot of money; I wasn't a superstar.
Acting was a lot like football. When you're a DB and you're one on one with a receiver, you're going to dance. It's go-time in front of 100,000 people and everybody watching on TV. That's exactly how it is when a director says 'Action!' It's the same adrenaline rush, the same training process. I love it.
The only thing I want to be able to do is come in and learn the offense, go out there and compete, show what I am capable of doing and try to get better as a football player.
I had sacrificed my entire life to play football.
If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete.
I watched UCLA football for many, many years. I've grown accustomed to the Pac-10 style.
The saddest day of my life was the day I didn't get to play football anymore.
In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.
Maybe I'm old-school, but I always thought you honor a contract.
I think football management has obviously changed and evolved in terms of practices and methods, but I would say the values we strive to hold are the same as great men like Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley.
I can categorically tell you that Mario Balotelli will not be at Liverpool.
I think I've proven I can build a team that plays a way of football that excites and challenges at the top end of the table.
If you look at the world-class performers at the top of the game, their numbers are just exceptional and that is the level he is at.
I think my history as a coach shows I like players who are gifted technically and have courage when it comes to being in possession of a football. That is a key quality for me.
In football there is very rarely a "typical day" - there are always issues and challenges that arise from nowhere, and as manager you have to be ready to deal with them.
I will leave no stone unturned in my quest - and that quest will be relentless - to try and get Liverpool back on the map again as a successful football club.
If one day I go to a game and I don't feel I can win, maybe I don't go.
When you've got the ball 65-70% of the time, it's a football death for the other team...It's death by football.
A great deal of it is mental, the ability to learn within the game, to perform at a high level - often with injury - and to weather the ups and downs of an emotional game through a 16-game season. Also, there is the willingness to prepare in the offseason, the film room, to learn the scheme and execute without a lot of repetition - that's football character.
I didn't play in the NFL, and I didn't play defensive line. But football, at the fundamental level, is football. It's about motivating people and getting the best out of them.
If you take a wrong step but you're still in that football position, you can just react and change directions. I think for the most part young guys need to work on their football position. Get in their stance and hold it as long as possible. Work on your flexibility, especially in the hips, so you can hold that longer. A good football position will help you be more mobile and give you better leverage in the trenches.
Young guys should focus on maintaining their football position. Coaches always say the lowest guy wins. I'm a taller guy and a bigger guy, but because I'm always in a great football position is why I think I'm able to get away from guys still. It gives me a chance to recover.
If I wasn't playing football, I'd be a juvenile probation officer.
The stuff I went through at Auburn? It didn't matter anymore. I just wanted to play football.
