“I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.” MenLittlesStoriesAgeSpaceHalfBreakCuttingWrittenFootballSpeechPaperSixPagesSticksSevenEdgesEightSquaresBubblesSheetsSpyFolds Author:Ian Rankin
“I feel the time is right, I want to spend more time with my young family and concentrate fully on my career [on retiring from international football at age 30” WantFeelsAgeYoungFamilyCareersFootballInternationalMore TimeRetiringAge 30 Author:Robbie Savage
“I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks.” HeartTwoMightRunningAgeBitsPiecesFootballLegsI RealizedOld AgeThirtyRisingRetiringBobWagesCurtainsLungsLacePuffGuinea Book:New and Collected Stories Source: New and Collected Stories
“I always say prepare to be a coach to anybody who wants to be a coach. At 24 years of age when I left engineering to become full time in football, I made sure that I was never going back to engineering.” WantYearsMadeAgeLeftFootballCoachesEngineering Author:Alex Ferguson
“The press keep asking me but I will stop when I stop scoring. The problem is football is very ageist. When you reach 30, they keep talking about your age.” ProblemAgeTalkingFootballAskingPressesKeep Talking Author:Kevin Kilbane
“To this day I am not convinced of having brought together with me in Germany the technically best players that could have been. But I was firmly convinced I called the ones that could create a team, and they could play with one another to the best of their possibility. In this day and age you win if you become a team. It doesn't necessarily mean that you've got to have the best football players in the country. It's possible that the best, all together, don't become a team. It's like a mosaic, you have to put all the pieces together.” IfsMeanHas BeensCountryPlayAgeTogetherWinningPiecesPlayerTeamPossibilityFootballConvincedGermanyThis DayCould Have BeenBest PlayersBest FootballFootball PlayerMosaics Author:Marcello Lippi
“When you are young nothing is more important than football but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.” PeopleImportantKidsAgeYoungLosesFootballMarriedOur FamilyRealising Author:Jermain Defoe
“I wanted to be a broadcaster, sportscaster, or gameshow host from a very early age. I did my first broadcasting when I was 10 or 11 - into a tape recorder for my brother's football game, and for local events. A local radio station was experimenting with high school disc jockeys for rock and roll shifts - I applied - and got the job.” FirstsAgeWantedSchoolJobsGamesRocksEventsFootballBrotherHigh SchoolRadioLocalsMy BrotherStationsHostTapeRock And RollFootball GameBroadcastingRadio StationsRecordersDiscsBroadcastersJockeys Author:Ralph Strangis
“I grew up in Douglasville, Georgia. My father played football for the Atlanta Falcons. We lived a bunch of places when I was younger. I was born in California. We lived in Chicago for a little bit and finally we ended up in Georgia. I grew up playing softball and at the age of nine I decided I was going to be an Olympian.” LittlesAgeFatherBitsBornFootballGrewLittle BitGrew UpDecidedNineBunchCaliforniaChicagoGeorgiaSoftballAtlantaOlympianFalcon Author:Elana Meyers
“There's so many kids out there and it's such a cut-throat world. I've seen a lot of my mates, you know, who are better players than me at a certain age, and they're not in football now.” KnowsWorldKidsAgeCertainCuttingPlayerFootballEnglandThroatMates Author:Frank Lampard
“Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.” SometimesPlayAgeCasesTeamFootballBiggerStrongerAthleteLeagueStronger Than Ever Author:Naveen Jain
“As a child, I was very active. I was a gymnast, I played touch football, netball and basketball. When I was 16 years old, I started yoga. I started working out at an early age.” YearsChildrenAgeFootballBasketballYogaWork OutActiveGymnastTouch Football Author:Miranda Kerr
“I think the part that people get confused is that when you come in National Football League at a young age, they tell you to try to look for other things to do, and be ready for everything else in your life just in case. But as soon as you have a bunch of success, they think that's the only thing you can do, that you can only be a football player. I think God has gifted me with so many other things other than just football, and that's what I want to bring to the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantTryingLooksAgeYoungCan DoCasesPlayerFootballReadyBunchLeagueThings To DoConfusedGiftedYoung AgeFootball Player Author:Russell Wilson
“I suppose you do think about the time that's allotted to you more than when you were younger. The mortality thing obviously has a stronger pull for you. It's an imminent truth; it's not necessarily a bad thing. You realize - much earlier than my age now - that you won't be able to play for England's football team, just to take a really crass example. So you can't have that life again. Unless you believe in reincarnation or whatever. Reincarnation? That's a whole other question. I find people who talk about that sort of thing in interviews idiotic. And I don't want to go down with them.” PeopleThinkingBelieveAgeRealizingTeamFootballStrongerMortalityReincarnationFootball TeamIdiotic Author:Mick Jagger