My brother was the consummate Nebraska boy - the football star who went to the university, was president of his fraternity, hunted with my dad all the time.
When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football.
I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, 'Son, be an architect,' and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
