I was just different. When the other kids gravitated to football or basketball, I went fishing and skating. I was into trapping animals, pheasants and squirrels. Not only was I trapper, I was a taxidermist.
The game is just, everybody talks about baseball, but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.
Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.
The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.
Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.
It's fantastic for Arsenal, and for English football as well. You've got an English club with a lot of young English talent committing themselves to a club.
When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.
You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.
I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen as the real bad boy.
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.
Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.
I'm not necessarily intimidated by really jocky guys. I can talk football with them, you know what I mean?
In my neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, there were a lot of young kids. We all played tackle football after school, but I knew very early on that I was not an athlete.
I grew up in Doncaster and have felt the love for football run through the town; it's for that reason that I have a real personal passion to make Doncaster Rovers a success story.
Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He's on the brink of his 13th league title, after all.
In modelling or football, being 30 is very bad. But, for an actress, ageing is like wine. You taste better and better because your body, your mind, your feelings, all this is a tool and it's getting sharper with time.
When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.
I would like to think that if I stop playing in three, four, five years time, whatever it may be, that I would still be involved in football and still have that as my profession. It is my passion and what I know.
Too many pupils at schools in the U.K. want to have careers as footballers or TV hosts, or models, because that's what they're constantly exposed to as the heroes of our time.
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.
Herb Brooks: That look like hockey to you? [pause] Herb Brooks: To me it looks like two monkeys trying to hump a football.
