“It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesBigsKidsRememberGamesHouseFunGrowsCitiesGrowing UpChildhoodFrontsFootballBasketballNormalNeighborhoodYardsNew OrleansFootball GameBig CitiesTouch Football Author:Eli Manning
“My favorite football memory isn't beating Florida or winning the bowl game ... My favorite memories are of playing football with my brothers and my dad in the front yard when I was younger.” GamesWinningMemoriesFrontsFootballBrotherDadMy DadMy FavoriteMy BrotherBowlsFloridaYardsPlaying FootballFavorite Memories Author:Eli Manning
“Look, I understand that for a lot of people, the US is superior to their country of residence in myriad ways, but I'm Australian. We have it all: the weather, the beautiful cities, the brand of football that involves neither padding yourself up like Santa Claus nor standing in a line in front of goal and covering your testicles.” PeopleWayLooksCountryBeautifulGoalLinesCitiesFrontsFootballStandingSuperiorsWeatherBrandsSantaAustralianCoveringSanta ClausResidenceTesticlesBeautiful City Author:Max Barry
“One of the reasons I'm lucky is to be around an owner like Jerry Jones. I'm not just saying it. The reality of it is the guy wants to win. As a quarterback, you need ownership and people in the front office and organization to help you win. If you don't get that help, you're always going to be fighting an uphill battle. You feel that, being a part of this organization with Jerry, that he's going to bring in people and sign people and want to improve this football team every year. It allows you to feel like, hey, we have a chance and I have a chance to do some special things around here.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsFeelsYearsReasonHelpingRealityGuyFightingWinningChanceTeamSpecialFrontsFootballBattleLuckyOfficeOrganizationHeyOwnersOwnershipQuarterbackJerryFootball TeamJust SayingSpecial ThingsUphill BattlesFront Office Author:Tony Romo
“We did not pass the ball... we couldn't have found our front two with radar.” TwoFoundFrontsFootballBallsManagersSoccerChairmanRadar Author:Joe Royle
“The combination of an out-of-control tabloid press and a readership that thrills to the destruction of the England head coach is something no other country can offer. Scolari was driven out; Steve McClaren's personal life made the front pages. Neither of them even held the job. Then there was the fake-sheikhing of Sven-Göran Eriksson. That a newspaper should so brilliantly and deliberately destabilise the national head coach in a World Cup year is something no other sporting nation would consider.” WorldShouldYearsMadeCountryJobsNationsFrontsFootballOffersPagesDestructionEnglandPressesDrivenCoachesNewspapersCupsManagersSoccerCombinationRanFakeOther CountriesPersonal LifeChairmanWorld CupTabloidsReadershipHead Coaches Author:Simon Barnes
“England are very light up front. Eriksson's decision not to include Jermaine Defoe can be declared an error of judgment, regardless of Rooney's situation. The Swede should have forgone one of his nine midfield players; much will have to go wrong for Jermaine Jenas to get a game.” ShouldLightGamesDecisionSituationPlayerFrontsFootballJudgmentShould HaveEnglandErrorsNineManagersSoccerChairmanLight UpRooney Author:Matt Dickinson
“Ian Baird is dashing around like a steam roller up front.” FrontsFootballSteamCommentatorsDashing Author:Martin Tyler
“I don't put any thought into the footballs after I choose them. When you're out there playing in front of 70,000 people, like a home crowd, you don't think about it. You're just reacting to the game.” PeopleThinkingHomeGamesFrontsFootballCrowdsReacting Author:Tom Brady
“I don't want to be throwing the football on the front yard when I'm 75. I mean, I'm not opposed to men doing that. But I don't think it's gonna work for me.” ThinkingMenWantMeanFrontsFootballThrowingYards Author:Alec Baldwin
“Acting was a lot like football. When you're a DB and you're one on one with a receiver, you're going to dance. It's go-time in front of 100,000 people and everybody watching on TV. That's exactly how it is when a director says 'Action!' It's the same adrenaline rush, the same training process. I love it.” PeopleActionProcessActingFrontsFootballTvsDirectorsTrainingAdrenalineReceiverOne On OneAdrenaline Rush Author:Brian J. White
“Some men develop their own singularity. Football makes men conform to stereotypes: the warrior or the hunter. Football produces a certain kind of masculinity - the drunk kind, the king who will yell the worst nationalist's ideas. In front of those, it is very difficult to be a dignified woman.” MenKindIdeasCertainDifficultWorstFrontsProduceFootballKingsDrunkWarriorStereotypeConformHuntersMasculinitySingularity Author:Orlan
“I don't do football. (Grew up in Leeds in the 1970s. Football there was indellibly associated with the National Front, i.e. violent fascist skinheads.)” FrontsFootballGrewGrew UpViolentFascistsLeeds Author:Charles Stross
“When I was a child I had a dream to become a football player. I always played as I played when I was a child. I tried to improve. I never dreamt of becoming a professional football player, I dreamed just to play with the best players in the best team. I never dreamed to be paid to play. I would have paid to play an FA Cup Final in front of 80,000 people in Wembley. I just tried to play the wonderful game that football is. So, I hope young players will still have this dream.” PeopleChildrenStillsPlayDreamYoungGamesPlayerWonderfulTeamFrontsFootballBecomingPaidFinalsCupsBest PlayersFootball PlayerI Had A DreamBest TeamCup Finals Author:Eric Cantona
“There is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in winning a game that by all odds one should lose...There has indeed been a surrender at Notre Dame, but it is a surrender to excellence on all fronts, and in this we hope to rise above ourselves with the help of God.” ShouldHas BeensHelpingGamesWinningLosesVirtueFrontsFootballExcellenceVicesSurrenderAcademicOddsMediocreRise AboveDamesNotre Dame Author:Theodore Hesburgh
“I think that sports, particularly football, gave me an opportunity to be out front, to be a leader, which helped me later on, when I got into politics.” ThinkingOpportunitySportsLeaderFrontsFootball Author:Gerald R. Ford
“The bottom line is that I wanted to come back and play in the Premier League again and wake up on Saturday morning and really fancy getting out there and playing in front of this fantastic support, scoring goals and enjoying football. (on returning to the premiership)” PlayWantedEnjoyGoalLinesMorningSupportFrontsFootballEnglandWake UpBottomFantasticLeagueFancySaturdayBottom LinePremier LeagueSaturday MorningScoring Goals Author:Michael Owen
“I have the best of both worlds. I can talk about Taylor Swift during the day, and at night I can sit in front of the TV and watch Thursday night football. At some point, if the two converge and it becomes one job where I can still talk about both, that would be amazing.” IfsWorldStillsI CanTwoWould BeJobsNightWatchesFrontsFootballTvsThursdayBest Of Both WorldsThursday Night Author:Charissa Thompson
“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 think people are wrong to do it, to compare him to your way of wanting to do it. If you're passionate about it, do it and do it your way. It's not always going to be in front of the cameras after a football game - that was the way I did it. Somebody else has a different way, and that's [James] LeBron, and I know who he is. And I can't get into specifics, but it did upset me that people were calling him out for that because they were just wrong.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayI CanDifferentGamesFrontsFootballCallingCamerasPassionateCompareUpsetDifferent WaysFootball GameSpecifics Author:Andrew Hawkins