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.
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.
I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.
I used to spend a lot of time at football training, but that time was later spent in amateur acting classes and my local youth theatre, in plays at school and after-school clubs. That filled the void.
Frank: If you are a part of that team, then my opinion of Notre Dame football just hit the shits!
Gail, Lizzie: What are you two talking about? Spud, Tommy: Football! What are you talking about? Gail, Lizzie: Shopping!
