“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
“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
“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
“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
“I did takwondo from the time I was pretty young and also played I did taekwondo for martial arts and then also played football, baseball, and basketball against older kids because of my brother being older. I learned pretty quickly to not be intimidated and to not back down.” ArtKidsYoungFootballBrotherBasketballBaseballMy BrotherMartial ArtsIntimidatedTaekwondo Author:Robbie Lawler
“Football is my first passion. I've played it since I was a little kid.” FirstsLittlesKidsPassionFootballLittle Kid Author:Urijah Faber
“I grew up in East St. Louis so I wanted to play baseball as a kid. Then I moved to Nebraska and became a football fan and wanted to play football. But I've always been fighting. Growing up in East St. Louis was hard. You had to fight there.” HardPlayKidsWantedFightingGrowing UpGrowingFansFootballGrewGrew UpBaseballMovedEastNebraskaFootball Fan Author:Houston Alexander
“Football is Lotto for kids from economically vulnerable neighborhoods.” KidsFootballVulnerableNeighborhood Author:Steve Almond
“Football is the kind of game where you have to really segregate kids from the general population and kind of colonize their minds. It's more intense and demands more than other sports. And this is why the folks who are involved (as players, coaches, boosters, fans) are so much more devoted to it. It's really a cult, when you think about it.” ThinkingMindKindKidsGamesSportsPlayerFansFootballInvolvedDemandFolksPopulationCoachesIntenseDevotedCult Author:Steve Almond
“Look at the growing number of people that want to ban football. Or ban anything that might hurt somebody. Too violent or too brutal or what have you. There's a segment of our adult population that's still children, still kids.” PeopleWantLooksChildrenStillsMightKidsHurtNumbersGrowingFootballAdultsPopulationViolentBrutalBans Author:Rush Limbaugh
“For some reason as a kid growing up in Lubbock, Texas, I always thought I was going to go to UCLA. I think it was because they had such great sports teams, and it was in California, where the actors were. But even though I was talking about being an actor when I was young, I was first going to be a football player. My dream was "I'm going to go to UCLA and be a football player."” ThinkingReasonDreamKidsSportsGrowing UpPlayerTeamFootballFootball Player Author:Brad Leland
“I was a very shy child. I didn't like football. I didn't like the usual stuff that was shoved at. Sports were always down you and the Gaelic language, which I've actually disliked as a kid but as I grow up I quite like it.” ChildrenKidsLanguageSportsGrowing UpFootballShyGaelic Author:Gavin Friday
“We had similar interests with Derek Rowan and Paul Hewson; it sounds really pretentious at 12, 13 year old kids were like into art and poetry, but we were. We weren't into football, we were into making music or being into music and painting and stuff like that. And we called this sort of little gang Lypton Village and we made up imaginary games and this is one day we'll form bands and one day we'll make movies and one day we'll do this and one day we'll do that. A lot of kids do this in their own way, except 25, 30 years later legend happens because some of us have become quite well known.” ArtKidsInterestFootballPaintingOne DayImaginaryWell KnownGangPretentious Author:Gavin Friday
“When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.” LittlesPlayKidsSportsParentCitiesGrowing UpGrowingFootballBaseballLeagueLittle League Author:Mike Krzyzewski
“In my neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, there were a lot of young kids. We all played tackle football after school, but I knew very early on that I was not an athlete.” KidsSchoolYoungFootballAthleteNeighborhoodOhioAfter School Author:John Legend
“I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid, but my father always told me - occasionally while striking me - that I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. And I think there's great truth in that.” KidsPlayerFootballBaseballVery GoodBaseball PlayerFootball PlayerGood Baseball Author:John Malkovich
“I wanted to show off - a simple impulse or drive; in much the same way as some kids wanted to play football, I wanted to show off. Not complicated in that sense, very natural; it just depends on how you want to show off.” WayWantPlayShowsKidsWantedNaturalSimpleFootballDependsComplicatedImpulseShowing Off Author:Dylan Moran
“I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.” PeopleNeedsTryingLooksChildrenMadeShowsKidsLeaderWatchesFootballSeriousTvsCoupleTrainingAccountsHeyFascinatedTv ShowsDiplomacyRaising ChildrenDown The RoadPlaying Football Author:Dee Dee Myers
“One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.” MenInspirationalMotivationalKidsSportsTeachingPositiveFootballHundredAthleteCoachesNflMotivational SportsOne ManInspirational SportsAthleticAmerican FootballBest PlayersBaseball PlayerFootball TeamSportsmanshipMotivational Inspirational SportsBasketball MotivationSports PsychologyAthlete MotivationalInspirational FootballBest SportsSportsmanShort SportsTeam PlayerFootball CoachShort Inspirational SportsGreatest SportsShort Motivational SportsBest AthleteAwesome SportsInspirational AthleteSports FootballGreat AthleteGreat Inspirational SportsFootball MotivationCoaches MotivationalMotivational FootballNotre DameCoaches And PlayersFootball FieldAthletic MotivationalAthletic InspirationalInspirational CoachPlayer To CoachPopular SportsInspirational Football CoachProfessional SportsCollege SportsTeam MotivationalCoaches And AthletesGreat AthleticMotivate AthletesFootball LeadershipGood Sportsmanship Author:Knute Rockne
“Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.” DoeTwoDreamKidsAbleJobsFatherWifeCarFootballTerribleAwardsAmerican DreamGood JobGarage Author:Barry Sanders
“When I started out as a little kid, I didn't say 'I just want to run football.' I wanted to be a great athlete.” WantLittlesRunningKidsWantedFootballAthleteLittle KidGreat Athlete Author:Herschel Walker
“I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.” PeopleLifeDifferentKidsDifficultPoorRaceTeachStruggleFootballLuckyAreasSoccerDifferent RacesPoor Family Author:Zinedine Zidane
“I've come to the conclusion that it's all about fear- fear that your kid won't come out on top, be a success. Forcing him into these brutal encounters will a) make a dame sure he is a success, and b) all you to see evidence of that success with the added bonus of a cheering crowd. This means that sports are supported with an almost desperate enthusiasm. The football team gets catered dinners before a fame. Honor Society is lucky if it gets a cupcake. Academic success-forget it. That requires too much imagination. There's no scoreboard.” IfsMeanKidsSportsImaginationForgetToo MuchTeamFootballHonorFameLuckyEvidenceCrowdsDinnerConclusionEnthusiasmEncountersDesperateCheerAcademicBrutalForget ItBonusFootball TeamDamesCupcakesScoreboardAcademic Success Author:Deb Caletti