People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life.
My parents weren't very sporty, and football wasn't part of my everyday life. I was never a massive football fan either, but, like everyone else, I used to watch matches on TV.
I do like to just have football on, so I will TiVo, like, three or four games for the weekend, and I'll just turn it on when there's no live football on, just to have the background noise.
Football is my base; that's where I learned to be tough. I was a strong safety, and that's what I do: I hit people. The mentality is football, the wrestling is precision.
As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot. When we were playing in the street, it was more touch football, so we didn't hit each other into cars.
Ray Kinsella: The Voice is back. Annie Kinsella: Oh, Lord. You're supposed to build a football field now?
As long as you've got serious investors who wish to put money into football, I applaud. It proves that football is attractive. What upsets me, what I find scandalous, is when clubs accept fools.
Football and me have never got on. My instinct and love for the harder end of contact had always meant I was perhaps a little too heavy-handed for football. Somehow it left me feeling unfulfilled.
As a kid, I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don't want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.
If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.
I like football, but I think this is a very personal matter. I don't see any negatives for some Russian rich man to buy a football club.
If players are performing for you, their age shouldn't really matter, especially because the older players can bring their experience to the table.
Escape is a consumer goods like another
It was wrong. It was like arresting the gun for murder.
Willie Mays was the best baseball player I ever saw. He could do anything.
Duane Allman was the best guitar player I ever heard who didn't read a note.
I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.
Players today are concerned about the money, but the large dollars only go to those players who are the best.
It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?
I think I'm a very poor piano player.
Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting.
