“I'm really only capable to two emotions at this point: lust and hunger. I lost revenge a few years back, and even then, it was reserved only for ex-girlfriends and particular football games that caused me to lose a lot of money.” YearsTwoGamesLostLosesEmotionFootballParticularCapableHungerRevengeLustGirlfriendLots Of MoneyExesReservedFootball GameEx Girlfriend Author:Jason Mulgrew
“People who are following their dreams inspire me. I train at this relatively new gym in West Hollywood called Training Mate. It's owned by a former Australian football player named Luke Milton. The classes are mostly taught by other Australians that are just like Luke: fit, funny, cute, and approachable. Now they're talking about opening another location. He will open another location and be successful because he's following his dream. People like him inspire me because they make me think I can do it too.” PeopleThinkingI CanDreamCan DoTalkingClassSuccessfulPlayerFootballInspireTaughtFitTrainingHollywoodTrainWestFollowingOpeningFormerCuteBeing SuccessfulGymMatesLocationAustralianLukeI Can Do ItFootball PlayerMiltonWest Hollywood Author:Dayna Devon
“Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.” ValuesChangedFootballInspirePlatformsAggressionChanged My Life Author:Dwayne Johnson
“You can go super American and get barbecue and beer and be like, 'Whatever, I'm watching a football game.' That's exactly what I'm going to do.” GamesFootballBeerFootball GameBarbecue Author:Emily Ratajkowski
“I play a lot of basketball and racquetball, as they're both great for your feet and hand eye coordination. Other drills can help as well, such as simply catching a football in distant positions from different heights and velocities.” WellsDifferentPlayHelpingHandsEyeFeetPositionFootballBasketballHeightCatchingDrillsVelocityCoordinationRacquetball Author:Antonio Cromartie
“You need to just understand where the ball is and how to use your body. Timing your jump the right way is crucial. Learn how to use your body to shield the receiver and box him out, again, much like a rebound. Trying to beat a receiver to a ball can be a lot like you're posting him up. Rebounding is great practice because you can employ those skills - body position, leverage, timing - a lot more than you might in a football game or practice if the quarterback doesn't look your way.” IfsWayNeedsTryingLooksUseBodyMightGamesPracticePositionFootballLike YouSkillsBeatsBallsBoxesYour BodyCrucialTimingRight WayShieldsQuarterbackFootball GameReceiverRebound Author:Antonio Cromartie
“Young guys should focus on maintaining their football position. Coaches always say the lowest guy wins. I'm a taller guy and a bigger guy, but because I'm always in a great football position is why I think I'm able to get away from guys still. It gives me a chance to recover.” ThinkingGivingShouldStillsAbleYoungGuyWinningChanceFocusPositionFootballBiggerGive MeCoachesGet AwayLowestMaintainingGreat FootballYoung GuysGive Me A Chance Author:Brandon Spikes
“If you take a wrong step but you're still in that football position, you can just react and change directions. I think for the most part young guys need to work on their football position. Get in their stance and hold it as long as possible. Work on your flexibility, especially in the hips, so you can hold that longer. A good football position will help you be more mobile and give you better leverage in the trenches.” IfsThinkingNeedsGivingLongStillsHelpingYoungGuyStepsPositionFootballHipsFlexibilityMobileStanceTrenchesYoung GuysGood Football Author:Brandon Spikes
“Since I'm not focusing on my speed as much now as I was heading into the combine, I'm really focusing on my position work, trying to perfect how I play the safety position. I've been doing a lot of backpedaling and drills that focus on turning my hips, which help me out on the football field.” TryingPlayHelpingPerfectFocusFieldsPositionFootballSafetySpeedHipsHelp MeHeadingsDrillsFootball Field Author:Calvin Pryor
“I played three sports in high school, baseball, football and basketball. Baseball really helped me a lot.” SchoolThreeSportsFootballBasketballHigh SchoolBaseball Author:Calvin Pryor
“Rebounding helps a lot with your ball skills, because you're able to go get the ball at a high point, which is what they want you to do in football.” WantHelpingAbleFootballSkillsBallsHigh Points Author:Calvin Pryor
“Basketball also helps you learn to move your feet by playing defense and guarding guys, and that all carries over to playing football with staying square and having good footwork.” HelpingMovingGuyFeetFootballBasketballDefenseStayingCarrieSquaresPlaying FootballGuardingFootworkPlaying Defense Author:Calvin Pryor
“It's intense in every sport. No matter what, USC vs. UCLA is crazy. Especially when it comes down to football and basketball, it's just nuts.” MatterSportsCrazyFootballBasketballNo Matter WhatIntenseNutsUclaUsc Author:Akeem Ayers
“Maybe I didn't go to the sexy football school, but I paved my way.” WaySchoolFootballSexyMy Way Author:Rahim Moore
“The only time I got the absolute most insanely nervous in my life was at the Olympic trials, because archery is a horrible spectator sport. Nobody goes and watches an archery tournament. Because the targets are three-quarters of a football field away. Who can tell who's winning? You can't even see your own target from where you are.” ThreeWinningSportsWatchesFieldsFootballAbsolutesTrialsHorribleNervousTargetWhere You AreQuartersOnly TimeSpectatorsTournamentsArcheryFootball Field Author:Geena Davis
“I believe that I have a platform because God blessed me with the talent to play football. Having that talent, my job is to be responsible with it.” BelievePlayJobsI BelieveTalentFootballResponsibleBlessedPlatformsBeing ResponsibleGod Bless Author:Benjamin Watson
“I didn't even grow up with football. I learned the rules of football on this show [The League].” ShowsGrowsGrowing UpFootballLeague Author:Katie Aselton
“My mom is a big sports fans. Basketball, football, baseball, whatever. She calls into sports radio shows and gets into shouting matches, that's how intense she is about it.” ShowsBigsSportsFansFootballMomBasketballBaseballRadioMy MomIntenseShoutingSports Fan Author:Chris Hardwick
“The '80s was brand new. It was AIDS. It was gangbanging. It was starting to become big dope-dealing, and crack was starting to flood the neighborhoods. And then you had hip hop, which was something new, other than what we were doing, which was sports, playing football, basketball, baseball. And I was excited.” BigsSportsFootballBasketballBaseballStartingHip HopExcitedAidsBrandsHipsHopsNeighborhoodSomething NewCracksFlood80sDopeBrand NewPlaying Football Author:Ice Cube
“He [Ryan white] spoke to me that my life was out of order. My life was a mess. I had no values anymore. And he was so stoic with his infection. He wasn't bitter. He wasn't angry. He just was a kid. He wanted to go to school and play football, drive his car. And he had no bitterness about him.” PlayKidsWantedSchoolValuesOrderWhiteCarFootballAngryBitterMessSpokesBitternessInfectionStoic Author:Elton John
“A great deal of it is mental, the ability to learn within the game, to perform at a high level - often with injury - and to weather the ups and downs of an emotional game through a 16-game season. Also, there is the willingness to prepare in the offseason, the film room, to learn the scheme and execute without a lot of repetition - that's football character.” CharacterFilmGamesAbilityLevelsRoomsDealsEmotionalFootballSeasonsWeatherInjuryWillingnessSchemesRepetitionUps & DownsHigh LevelOffseason Author:Brendan Daly
“I didn't play in the NFL, and I didn't play defensive line. But football, at the fundamental level, is football. It's about motivating people and getting the best out of them.” PeoplePlayLinesLevelsFootballFundamentalsNfl Author:Brendan Daly
“It was the proudest moment of my career to lead my team out at the home of English football. I never, ever dreamt that would happen!” MomentsHomeHappensCareersTeamFootballProudest MomentsEnglish Football Author:Casey Stoney
“I mean, Dad was one of these people who simply could not lose, you know? He could not stand it when a kid was beating him. He would go crazy when the child came to that moment, which, you know, you have to come to - I mean, Dad played Old Maids like he played football. He just simply had to win every single thing every single time.” PeopleKnowsMeanChildrenMomentsKidsWinningLosesCrazyFootballDadThat MomentMaidsOld Maids Author:Terry Gross
“I've been a feminist since the day I was born. I wanted to play football. I didn't want to play with dolls; I wanted to play with boys and didn't understand why I couldn't.” WantPlayWantedBornBoysFootballFeministDolls Author:Lizzy Caplan
“For me, my entry point, when I was old enough, was the skinhead/suedehead thing, sort of like '70/'71. People didn't have much money - they would save up, or whatever - but everyone always dressed up. You'd go to a dance at the football club on a Thursday night and all of us kids - all of us from maybe like 12 to 16 - were all dressed up.” PeopleEnoughKidsNightFootballClubsEntryDressed UpThursdayFootball ClubsThursday Night Author:Paul Weller
“My favorite sports novel is End Zone by Delillo. It's such a great looking book too, the black cover with the football player on it. It's just a fantastic little book.” LittlesBookEndsSportsBlackNovelPlayerFootballMy FavoriteFantasticZoneFootball PlayerFavorite Sports Author:Chad Harbach
“I've always had an irrational fear - it's really not an irrational fear, I think - whenever I've been standing at a urinal at a bar, or Giants Stadium or Yankee Stadium. You've got a bunch of drunks behind you, often in a hostile, adrenalized environment like a football game. What's to prevent the guy behind me from slamming my head into the porcelain wall in front of me?” ThinkingGuyGamesBehindsEnvironmentFrontsFootballWallStandingBarsBunchGiantsIrrationalHostileYankeesBehind YouStadiumsFootball GamePorcelainYankee StadiumIrrational Fear Author:Steve Rushin
“I didn't win prom king. By that point, I'd quit sports except for soccer, so I was really just a theater guy. I totally lost to the captain of the football team.” GuyWinningLostSportsTeamFootballKingsTheaterQuittingSoccerCaptainsFootball TeamProm Author:Patrick Wilson
“Guys are faster, they're bigger and they're stronger. I think that's probably the main thing. And that's not just in football, I think it's in every sport.” ThinkingGuySportsFootballBiggerStrongerFaster Author:Andre Reed
“Everyone in my high school was a bit nerdy. We didn't even have a football team.” SchoolBitsTeamFootballHigh SchoolFootball TeamNerdy Author:Norah Jones
“Ask José Mourinho, he wouldn't know a thing about me, my sport - he knows football, and to get to high levels you have to be insane, nothing else means anything.” KnowsMeanAsksSportsLevelsFootballInsaneHigh LevelMourinho Author:Conor McGregor
“The reason that people in the intellectual community argue that football is dangerous is because there's now a large swath of society that has no relationship to physicality or potential violence.” PeopleReasonCommunityViolenceDangerousFootballIntellectualArguingPhysicality Author:Chuck Klosterman
“What's kind of happening is the conflict over football might be a class conflict where there is a percentage of people who have no relationship to physicality and a percentage of the populace who still does.” PeopleKindDoeStillsMightClassFootballConflictHappeningsPercentagesPhysicalityClass Conflict Author:Chuck Klosterman
“You just can't believe how quickly things happen in football and the way life turns. I went from being the bad guy, the worst player who gets all the criticism, to being the player who makes the difference and scores the important goals.” WayBelieveImportantHappensGuyTurnsGoalDifferencesPlayerWorstFootballCriticismThings HappenScoreBad Guys Author:Luis Suarez
“When you play a team with as much attacking power as Barcelona and you restrict them to one shot on target in the second leg, you are doing something right. Have the best football team gone through? Yes. Have the best organised team gone through? No.” PlayGoneTeamFootballShotsLegsTargetAttackingBest FootballFootball TeamBarcelonaOrganised Author:Jamie Redknapp
“The one I can't imagine anyone taking seriously, but was one of my favorites, was the mesh football jersey top, paired with a really short pair of athletic shorts.” I CanImagineFootballPairsAthleticJerseyShortsMeshReally Short Author:Tyler Hoechlin
“This may sound arrogant, but I believe that if we'd done teamship better, we'd still be there. Where we fell down was the inability to hold together. We should have learnt from the great football teams. The players may not like each other. They have egos, they have their own ambitions, they have different personalities, but they are still bloody good teams.” IfsShouldBelieveMayStillsDifferentDoneTogetherI BelieveSoundPlayerTeamFootballPersonalityEgoAmbitionShould HaveArrogantBloodyInabilityFootball TeamGood TeamGreat Football Author:Alastair Campbell
“I remember talking to Alex Ferguson about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown], and he said: "Why doesn't Tony just get rid of him?" But if you sack someone in football, they can't turn up to training the next day. In politics they're still on the pitch. Gordon would still have been a big player.” IfsHas BeensSaidStillsBigsRememberTurnsNextTalkingPlayerFootballTrainingBrownNext DayAlexBlairFerguson Author:Alastair Campbell
“there's a lot of dangerous sports. You know, my opinion, football is the most dangerous sport there is. After that I'll give it to probably boxing. Then there's some other extreme sports out there, motocross where you're really risking your neck every time you go out there and do it.” KnowsGivingSportsOpinionDangerousFootballExtremesBoxingNecksExtreme SportsMotocrossDangerous Sports Author:Jon Jones
“I was the kid that wanted to be anonymous in that I'd put a football helmet on and be a member of a team and go out there and maim people. It was a very hard process. It truly was.” PeopleHardKidsWantedProcessTeamFootballMembersHelmet Author:Bill Goldberg
“It's sometimes difficult living in France. People are more open minded in England, and of course I'm missing England in terms of football and the passion that the fans show, they're really passionate.” PeopleSometimesShowsPassionCoursesDifficultTermFansMissingFootballEnglandPassionateFranceOpen MindOpen Minded Author:Emmanuel Petit
“I had lots of posters on my bedroom wall of players like Zico, many Brazilian and Italian players, not many players in particular but I loved football so much and I especially loved skilful players.” PlayerFootballParticularWallItalianBedroomPostersBedroom Wall Author:Emmanuel Petit
“A football team is like a company. All of the people working in a company are not supposed to love each other, but they are supposed to be professional.” PeopleCompanyTeamFootballSupposed To BeLove Each OtherFootball Team Author:Emmanuel Petit
“Being a footballer is not just about wearing the shirt and playing football on the pitch. You have to be clean, you have to do right things, you have to show courage, you have to show many many things you know. I always say that you play the same way on the pitch as you do in life.” KnowsWayPlayShowsFootballCleanShirtsRight ThingFootballerPlaying Football Author:Emmanuel Petit
“Being a coach means giving your job 200% all the time and you're family is left on the side so I don't want to risk my family anymore just because I love football. I don't feel this ambition, I'm involved in many businesses and I want to live my own life, to see my daughters grow and want to see my family happy.” WantGivingFeelsMeanJobsLeftGrowsSidesMy OwnRiskFootballInvolvedAmbitionDaughterMy FamilyCoachesMy DaughterMy Own LifeI Love Football Author:Emmanuel Petit
“I don't play anymore because I can't play anymore and I retired when I was playing for Chelsea because the doctor had to cut my leg in two parts so this is why I retired. I started going to the gym recently and my knee started to hurt again, so you can imagine what it would be like if I tried to play! I play football on the beach with my daughters and my friends but that's it.” IfsI CanTwoPlayWould BeHurtCuttingImagineFootballDaughterMy FriendsDoctorsLegsBeachKneesMy DaughterGymRetiredBecause I CanChelsea Author:Emmanuel Petit
“I think, just as footballers play better at home, maybe film-makers, too, create better at home, even though the rules of football are the same wherever you go.” ThinkingPlayHomeFilmFootballMakersFootballer Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“This kind of directing, I think, is very similar to being a football coach. You prepare your players and place them in the right places, but once the game is on, there's nothing much you can do - you can smoke a cigarette or get nervous, but you can't do much.” ThinkingKindGamesCan DoPlayerFootballCoachesNervousSmokeCigaretteRight PlaceFootball Coach Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“Matt Damon is a great actor, and he's from Boston, so we've got a few things in common. I've seen him throw a football, though. He definitely needs to work on that.” NeedsActorsCommonFootballBostonGreat ActorsDamon Author:Tom Brady