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.
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.
In international football, you need pace and you need your players up top to create things out of nothing and run at people.
In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.
More than any other major sport, professional or amateur, college football games are decided by the physical incompetence and downright chokery of their players.
For some reason in today's society, people look up to football players and you have a voice. And it's because of that voice you have the opportunity to impact people's lives.
Life is full of all sorts of setbacks and twists and turns and disappointments. The character of this team will be how well you will come back from this letdown, this defeat. You could still be a great team and you can still accomplish great things a...
And I think they loved me because I loved being part of their team, you know, and I quite often say to kids, that I was the worst player in the world's best football team - and that was good enough for me.
For me, there's nothing that beats playing. When I'm not playing, I'll watch games on the television, watch stuff on You Tube, everything. I just live for football, love watching great players.
I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game.
Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.
There is always going to be competition. When you play for a top club, you're going to attract top players. It's part and parcel of football.
Basketball players want contact to get a foul called. Slaps on the wrist and bumps on the shoulder are big time to them, and they don't like that. In football, you get that all the time. The whole mental makeup is different.
We are making a little portion of their brains be sprinters; they are 100 percent football players, but for these purposes, they must learn the proper way to run.
You are responsible to each other because when you win a game of football, you only need eight players to perform well.
When you will have to search for long to collect other nine players to organize your usual five-a-side football match..you will realize to be old...
You're convincing these big, tough football players to wear what was essentially women's lingerie. There was a little bit of a Jedi mind trick that needed to take place. The product really spoke for itself once guys felt it and touched it.
I find myself thinking back to something I saw on the local news about a year ago. A teen football player had died in a car accident. The cameras showed all his friends after the funeral—these big hulking guys, all in tears, saying, “I loved him....
In high school I used to sing in the shower. None of the football players liked it, because they were all naked and I was in a tuxedo.
I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time.
I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players.
