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.
When the Olympics and World Cups come around, that's when you see the real outpouring of support that there really is for female football.
I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough.
I was a late bloomer. I tried out for the football team, and I got locked off the field. That's how I wound up in drama.
But quite honestly I can't help being a passionate football supporter. If that's my sin, I'm guilty.
I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
My favorite book is 'Million-Dollar Throw.' It's about football, which is one of the main things I like watching and reading about.
I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school.
Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them.
The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.
My early ambitions were the same as they are now - to play for Manchester United. I was, and still am, football mad.
The name of the game is 'kill the quarterback.' Every football team tries to knock the guy out of the game that's handling the ball.
I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living.
When a kid plays football games before he attends a class, something is wrong.
At school, myself and some pals, all football-daft, divided up the old English First Division and wrote off to half a dozen clubs each asking for a trial.
My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I'm obsessed.
English football has just had a transfer window imposed for the first time, so it will be interesting to see how managers cope with the squads they have until it re-opens.
You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.
