I grew up in Michigan, so I played hockey, football and basketball. I played a little bit of lacrosse, too. My brother played more lacrosse and ran track.
When I was playing junior football when I was a kid, we were the Geneva Giants, so it was kind of embedded in me to be a Giants fan.
I think at some point during the course of the game, I will have an impact - whether it's blocking or whether it's catching the football.
I never felt I would get to the stage where I would to have to actively think about retiring from international football as I always thought it would pass me by.
I also played two years of high school football but I wasn't very, how shall I say it, talented.
I hate being in Los Angeles when it's football season. I want to be in New York. It just doesn't feel right if I'm away.
Football is a personal interest which has been turned into a philanthropic initiative directed at encouraging social cohesion during the difficult process of African modernisation.
To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's what football is to some guys.
Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.
Living life without a GOAL is like playing football without a Goal post. There is no Purpose. Then why play the game of Life?-RVM
Maybe I'm stupid or whatever, but to me if I got a concussion, if I could see straight and I could carry a football then I'm not telling anybody.
If you'd rather go to the football game than read a comic, that's fine. I'd rather do both.
I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.
Horses will never be my career. It's just a big passion of mine, and one that will always be there in the background, but football is my main passion and everyone knows that.
The Greatest” is a bite-your-tongue-book. Ultimately a tragic tale it is also immensely uplifting and easily the best footballer biography I have ever read.
My ultimate goal is for that next generation coming up, who didn't see me play, go, 'Oh, he used to play football?'
As a kid, there are some things you looked forward to. You looked forward to Charlie Brown during Halloween and you looked forward to Monday Night Football.
My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.
My aim as a frontman is always to try and shrink the venue, if you can, to turn that football stadium into the world's smallest club. At least you have to try.
Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.
In college football, fans wallow in a culture of failure. Unless you root for Miami, you sadly wait for disaster to strike your team in a manner not seen outside of Fenway Park.
