Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.
The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.
It starts with a whistle and ends with a gun.
Good luck is a residue of preparation.
Ray Lewis knifed through those offensive linemen like a sucker-punch switchblade slicing between the ribs of some inebriated trash-talking punk outside a sports bar.
The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
We have no leadership. They rule by herd. Nobody is in charge. It reminds me of a bunch of cows.
Some guys are football smart and they're not smart in other ways. Other guys get 1500 on their SATs and can't get a double-team block right. No, that definitely, in my experience, sometimes it correlates, sometimes it doesn't. I don't think you just take it for granted.
A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet.
The highest standards of conduct must be met by everyone in the NFL because it is a privilege to represent the NFL, not a right.
I give so much of myself on Sunday. I drain all the life out of myself out there. I get paid to play, to win, to give the city pride, so maybe everybody can forget for a little while how hard life is.
If I wasn't a footballer, I would be a virgin
At every opportunity, I wanted to play football.
I never make predictions and I never will.
When I score I don't celebrate, its my job, does a postman celebrate when he delivers post?
The most important people at Liverpool Football Club are the people who want to be here.
I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will?
I always believe there's a reason why you go through everything.
Mourinho is a coach of titles, not football. Or rather, not a football coach if we understand the sport is a spectacle or entertainment for those who watch it, either at home or live in the stadium.
I feel like I'm the best, but you're not going to get me to say that.
You know, I never looked down the road and said, 'Hey look, one day, the Hall of Fame.' It's always about playing each and every game 100 percent and I thank my teammates for getting me into the Hall because football is a team sport, not an individual sport.
Scholes was playing tiki-taka football when nobody in England knew what it was. He was another of those players, like Denis Law or Bobby Moore, who at 15 probably looked as if he wouldn't make it. Too small, you would think - can't run, dumpy little ginger nut - but then the ball would come to him and he would dazzle you. He was the best footballer in that Manchester United midfield, better than Ryan Giggs and Roy Keane.
I don't understand racism. I have many black friends and many others have been my opponents. Respect is basic. Unfortunately racism is a social problem, and football belongs to society.
Football is the ballet of the masses.
