If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education.
I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.
Building companies involves creating great wealth. If that means I am an oligarch, OK, it's fine. But if being an oligarch is about buying football clubs, it is not for me.
We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.
The decisions I've made have not always been the most popular, but when I look back, I want to know I've played for good football teams.
I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.
Everywhere I go now, people are like, 'That's the guy from 'Dancing With the Stars!' It's pretty good that you're not just a football player but you're in the entertainment world.
Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.
What I've been telling everyone that loves Carolina football is that we are going to put a team out there that, number one, is in good shape. We're going to be fit, we are going to be able to play the whole game and we're not going to poop out.
I'm a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, climbing rocks and all that good stuff, so that's always been fun.
Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct.
I don't think God cares a whole lot about the outcome. He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.
The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play football for the Colts anymore.
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 love sporting events and popcorn and pizza and being outside, like at a baseball or football game. I love amusement parks, going to ride roller coasters.
My favorite football team is the Bears because my favorite player is on there, Devin Hester. I love the whole team, though. But that's just my favorite player.
As a quarterback, you have to love it. As much as you like to turn around and hand the ball off - the whole traditional football game - as a quarterback, you gotta love putting it in the air.
Of course, I love football, but I'm not one of those die-hard fans that never miss a game or with rooms devoted to team colors. At the end of the day, it's just a game.
In international football, you need pace and you need your players up top to create things out of nothing and run at people.
My son is a Liverpool fan, and he was already kicking a ball before he was one. He was born in the football city; he had no choice.
Sophomore year, I got hit in the stomach playing football, and I was out of school for four months. I was in the hospital for two and then out of school for two.
