John Bond has blackened my name with his insinuations about the private lives of football managers. Both my wives are upset.
When I was in college there was a girls' flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive.
The last jobs I had were fixing cars and covering football games for a local access tv station. As in driving the mobile van to the field, setting up 3 cameras, teaching depressed grownups and interns how to use them and directing the game from the van and then wanting to kill myself.
You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen.
All you can do is put your story out there enough times and hope that a couple will understand that no matter what type of athlete you are - there were no athletes better than I was, there was no one who had more going for him than I did, there was no athlete stronger mentally than I was.
The most important thing about winning is believing that you can win no matter who you are playing.
I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength.
A player who dives and wins a penalty in Portugal, or Spain or Italy is considered clever, experienced, cunning, someone who understands the game. In England a player who wins a penalty like that is a cheat.
Money does not guarantee success.
You are pushed to behave differently here, you don't really have a choice. If you cheat you have no chance of being admired. Even your own supporters will dislike you. So what do you do? Well, the way is not to be stupid, but not to cheat either. If there is a foul, you have to fall. I call it 'helping the referee to make a decision'. That's not cheating.
I asked the players: 'Do you want to enjoy the game? Or do you want to enjoy after the game?' The players told me they wanted to enjoy after the game so I said: 'OK, then we will enjoy after the game'.
Pressure? What pressure? Pressure is poor people in the world trying to feed their families. There is no pressure in football
For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.
He should voicemail get open!
Al journalism should be investigative, from football to cookery
I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.
As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience off the field.
I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of going out there and playing football.
I still haven't gotten that little something out of my system that I'm still not a kid going to a football game. I'm excited.
You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
I love football. I really love football, As far as I'm concerned, it's the second best thing in the world.
If you're a pro coach, NFL stands for 'Not for long.
In England everything is liberalised. Within certain boundaries and rules everybody can do what he likes. Maybe London's society has a different tempo, a different dynamic. London is fast, productive, creative but it is not England. If you want to transfer that to football, you could say: in the four big English clubs and maybe in the one or two behind them there is a top level. Everything that comes after that rather mirrors English society. It's honest, fair and hard, sometimes also fast, but not always so perfect.
In the NFL, 31 players have been arrested just since the Super Bowl. In fact, a lot of teams are switching to the no-huddle offense because players aren't allowed to associate with known felons.
I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames, I'm really into them.
