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I still try to treat football as a game even if there are now other considerations at stake, especially economic ones.
In Brazil, if you have a son, the first thing you give him is a football. That's the first gift - so my dad was no different.
I started playing football on the streets; I grew up playing football on the streets with my friends, and that's why I was brought up the way I was. That's the school I had - the street football.
In England, the referees don't call many fouls, as opposed to Spanish football. Consequently, you must be really strong all through the 90 minutes.
Do I enjoy the aggression of English football? No. I like to play football. I like to score goals. I like to do things well.
I think that football has always had a passionate, aggressive side, with players giving their all. People have to get used to this.
Some people seem to think football is like theatre and that everyone has to play the good guy. But I think that you transform when you cross the white line: you're not the same person as off it.
It is easy to criticize me from behind a pen or a microphone, from someone who never set foot on a football field.
Football is a really simple game, and the most important thing, in any formation, is that the players do their jobs, not the formation which they play in.
Football has allowed me to see the world, and in Paz, I have a wife who is keen to see the world with me.
Retiring from international football was a personal decision, and I was very sure about what I was doing. I played for my country for more than ten years, and there were highs and lows. It was a fantastic experience, though, and the most wonderful thing is that it ended well.
Uruguay is a small country but with a lot of football history. We've won so many things, and so the people are always expecting us to do good things.
Football has changed, and so has the relationship between the players on the pitch. Where once some players would try everything to distract opponents, now it's harder. There are TV cameras everywhere, which have much higher quality images than before. There are lip readers in studios working out what you are saying to each other.
It's true that football is a job, and one works to earn money, but when there are so many feelings involved, it's hard to change clubs just to earn a bit more cash. I respect every player and their decisions, but that's my feeling.
Football is very changeable, particularly at international level when you're not working together every day.
To see my country lose a football match is very hard for someone who has worn the shirt.
Things are neither clear nor clean in the world of football right now and many people recognise this reality.
Many people agree with me that many things are not clear in football these days and it is not something people who watch football deserve. The situation will be the same while football is run by people who do not understand football.
And if I want to get involved in choosing sides, I usually pick hockey or football.
You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.
When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.
It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.
Football is a sport of paradox. It requires reaction, not reflection. Yet you must use your mind to calculate, to anticipate - to think and not think at the same time.
With TV, it's the same way as preparing for the game of football. To get better at football, you have to watch the film and watch those who came before you and played the game, and yes, the first year you come in as a rookie and you're not gonna be as good as when you come in as a vet, and I applied that in the same way to 'Ton of Cash.'
I started playing football when I was ten years old, and the main reason was because I wanted to make my parents proud. I didn't even like the sport at the time, but it didn't matter to me.
What other school in the country is top five academically and top five in football? There isn't one - except Stanford.
The one thing I learned early on as a football player is people have their opinions, and I can't change them. But I can show them what they're missing.
Whenever you're falling or getting tackled, try to protect yourself. But that's part of the game; that's part of football.
I only get to experience this college football once. I want to live it up while I can.
I'm blessed to play a game I love, to throw a football, to have the things I have. There were times before where I didn't have those things, I was still blessed. I've always been happy.
We have a lot of pride for Yulee, and with the football team we can help show that.
It's my job. I am just going in there trying to win games. But it is always fun when you are playing football.
You've just got to deliver the first blow. In football, you're going to get hit. Don't let someone deliver the hit to you. You've got to deliver the hit to them.
Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed, to win a national championship. And that worry leads to pressure to compromise academic standards to admit those athletes.
I have kids. I can't hardly watch an afternoon football game with them without having to turn off the TV during the commercials. It's too much. I don't know when violence was deemed such a cinematic thing.
I went out for the football team but, you know, I was too small. That's how I wound up in drama.
I didn't play football in school, but I've been a fan of football all my life. I have a fair understanding of it. Doing movies about it really helps because you know what makes them work and what doesn't.
I was a late bloomer. I tried out for the football team, and I got locked off the field. That's how I wound up in drama.
I played a little basketball, but basketball interfered with theater season. That's when we did our term plays and did nutshell versions of Shakespeare for English classes. And, believe me, I got a fair amount of looks from the guys on the team. 'You're in theater but you can play football?'
On my wall, along with my favorite football players and baseball players, I had Marlon Brando and Sir Laurence Olivier. These were childhood idols.
I just wanted to get back to playing attacking football after my time in Italy. It was a little difficult at first but the atmosphere and the fans were just fantastic.
In Holland and Spain and France, where so many of us come from, people aren't interested in the sex lives of their players. We don't hear these stories - even in Italy where the media is right on top of football.
I don't want to lose myself in football and that's what a coach has to do to be successful.
I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends.
It's fantastic for Arsenal, and for English football as well. You've got an English club with a lot of young English talent committing themselves to a club.
Arsene Wenger's idea is not only to play good football. It's to play good football to win. In my day, we knew that with our style we could hurt teams and win trophies too. But we did it our way, with the positional game, passing, movement.
Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.
My dad always played sports. He played football. I always wanted to play football because my dad played football, but my mom never wanted me to play football because she said she couldn't take me getting hit.
I am professional, won a Champions League, silver at the World Cup, I achieved big things in football and don't deserve to go anywhere on loan.
In football you can never know. You relax and in one second it causes pressure.
We know how in football everything changes quickly. It doesn't take too long to lose one game.
People look at football, they don't look at what is going on around the life.
I made the wrong decision many times. Sometimes I can accept it, sometimes not because football is like that. But in the end it depends on yourself and whether you are ready to move on or not.
I'm not going to lie: I'm a competitive player. I think there's no point playing football if you're not competitive and you don't want to win games.
But quite honestly I can't help being a passionate football supporter. If that's my sin, I'm guilty.
People who troll you want a reaction, and there's no point in doing that. I just try to focus on my football.
You're only out there for 90 minutes, and you have to give it everything you've got. It's a game of football, at the end of the day.
I think it's important that I keep playing international football, whatever level it is.
In football, and in life, I have always tried to be completely honest and true to myself and my family at all times, and that is what I will continue to do.
I played all sports coming up in Texas. I played basketball, football, baseball, ran track. All through high school I did all of that.
As a football team, we don't have any backups. We don't consider anybody a backup.
In the NFL, if you make the play or you don't make the play, you're just a football player who did or didn't make the play. You don't get more yards or less yards based on what you're labeled as by society.
When the ball is up in the air for a rebound you always have to be on your toes to go up for the ball. It's the same situation in football as a receiver; I'm always trying to get the ball at the highest point like a rebound.
My motto is I'm going to go out and work every day no matter who is here. It's a mentality that I always play with since I've been playing football.
I don't care if you're my brother - if we go play football, I'm gonna try to crack your head open. It doesn't mean that I don't love you. It doesn't mean that I don't respect you.
There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but you've got to work hard to do it.
I always said I was good football player, I'm fine as an actor, but I'm a great dad.
I wasn't banned from skiing but didn't go much in college because I couldn't afford it, and there just wasn't the time. I played football all winter, then in summer I did track and field and played volleyball.
Football was much, much more than I hoped it would be. If I dreamed as a kid, I could never have foreseen such amazing things.
I don't like to criticise referees because I believe it is a very complicated job, and what they do is very beneficial for football.
I started out playing football in the streets, playing barefoot like all the boys there - we didn't have the money for football boots.
When I was eight, I went into a football school in my neighbourhood, and we played five a side on a little court.
I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football.
I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.
Football in England is much more direct that in Spain - not just in terms of tactics or style but in the overall approach.
Stuff happens in football. Sometimes it goes in your favour, sometimes it doesn't.
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