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I was recruited by every school in the country for football and basketball. And an incident happened in high school, and all that was taken away. No other teams, no other schools were recruiting me anymore.
I decided with my head to move to Liverpool, but my heart was full of tears. I spent two special years in Rome. My daughter was born there, and I have a lot of friends there outside of football.
To be perfectly honest, I follow football the way I follow television. I read about it.
Surely, sport is not fundamentally about the safety of athletes. If it were, we'd probably have to ban professional football, right after boxing.
Football, like no other sport, creates a sense of unity, equality, and inclusion. All of these are at the heart of my vision for a changing Gabon.
Our daily work ethic - that need to always do better and top our last performance - is what makes USWNT football players who we are.
I always want to play and to win because football's my passion; it's my life. That's why, every time we win, I'm really happy.
Ozil is a quality player, and he really enjoys playing football. I always tell him to enjoy it and not get too worried about scoring.
You might cry during a game if you lose a final. That's all part of football.
I've learnt so much from playing football: I love football, and that's what I do. I enjoy myself, and I'm just trying to be happy.
I had a breakthrough in my football life. Now I switch to the left. I make goals. I pass. I am evolving.
Ever since I started watching Premier League, I found English football very appealing.
Football players have always got a problem, some pain, and in some games, I have had small problems with my knee or some pain, and I played anyway, but people don't know if I have a problem or not. People just know if you score a goal or if you play badly, but they never know if you are well or not.
Arsene Wenger is different. He's a purist. He's a professor of football. A professor.
Acting has never been a thing that me and my dad have talked about. It's like footballers: when they get together, I bet the last thing they talk about is football.
Arsenal are a historic club. Arsene Wenger has been here for such a long time, and there is a real level of stability at the club. He knows what he wants to achieve in the coming years. I liked the way he spoke about football and what he thinks of me.
I like the atmosphere in the Premier League. The teams play attacking football, and for a striker, that is even more attractive.
Arsenal are the club that plays the best football in England, so I really wanted to come here.
I don't think the physical part of English football would be a problem. When you get the ball, you need to be ready. The defenders here are very tough. I like that.
I arrived in Milan when I was 18. But my time in Italian football helped me to mature.
In football, nothing is certain, so it's no problem to return to Corinthians.
Building companies involves creating great wealth. If that means I am an oligarch, OK, it's fine. But if being an oligarch is about buying football clubs, it is not for me.
I'm a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football - but tougher.
I'm so excited to be joining Arsenal. It's a fantastic club, and I'm really looking forward to the opportunity of playing football at the highest level.
I've played so many games of football now, and even though it is at a higher level, at the end of the day, football is football. You are just playing with better players.
My senior school didn't play football. It was a rugby and cricket school, and as I was on a sports scholarship, I was forced to play rugby.
My dad had a spell when he came out of coaching doing some work with underprivileged children on quite a rough council estate in Southampton to help the kids and take them out to places. I used to go along with him. I used to play football with them, mess about with them. I was only 13 or 14 and became good friends with them.
I've got a lot of very fond memories playing football from the ages of four.
I never want anyone to think I've been given a helping hand. I've always worked for everything, whether it be on the football field or away from it.
Some people don't like change. Some embrace it. But the way it's going - not just in football, but in society generally - it's more diverse. People want freshness.
My mum never once tried to push me into something different, even though there was no way of making a living out of women's football. She supported me because she saw I was happy and that it gave me a focus to not be hanging around on the street.
I may not have played men's football, but I've been at World Cups as a player. I know the emotions. I've been in quarter finals, a semi-final. I'd been substituted and sat on the bench watching us lose a penalty shoot-out. I know what happens, what you need when the pressure's on.
Women are the same. We watch football; we play football. Why wouldn't we be out there giving our opinions on the sport ,too?
I've been in football since I was eight. Of course I know what I'm talking about.
I'm just happy I get paid to train every day and play football. I can't ask more than that.
While I was playing football in the U.S., I learnt to play the guitar, and I'm picking it up again now.
Sure, I do feel I am an ambassador for women's football. But that hasn't changed. It's been like that since I started at eight years old. I'm still me.
The U.S.A. have a 'football arrogance,' which means winning is in their DNA - nothing else is good enough.
When I was younger, my food and fitness were less controlled - I just loved football.
Most of my football education was under Hope Powell, and were some of her training sessions boring? Yes. But were they necessary? Yes. We fully understood what we needed to do as a defensive unit.
To walk out at Wembley in an England shirt is a big deal for a girl who remembers playing in her local football cage down the park in Poplar with the boys.
Football made me want to train and stay disciplined. It kept me away from things like drugs. Young people are faced with the temptation to stray all the time.
The enjoyment of playing football gave me a positive pathway, but I could have taken a very different path.
For me, football is football. I'm a fan; I'm passionate. I feel lucky to be in the position that I am.
I was fortunate enough to play in a number of finals, and I can still remember waking with butterflies in my stomach. It is at moments like those you realise why you fell in love with football in the first place.
When I was in the GB Women's football team at the 2012 Olympics, it was obvious who was in the first XI and who was making up the numbers. Kelly Smith was going to be first-choice striker no matter what, and the other forwards in the squad mentally checked out as a result.
If you don't go out there and play winning football, they're going to try and find somebody who can.
Most of the time, you're just trying to be the point guard out there based on the play call and the defense that you're getting; that really dictates where the football goes.
My construction business represents 10 or 20 times what I'll ever invest in football. But from the moment I bought the Chargers, I would become forever known as the owner of that NFL franchise.
Well, football is a hard game; there's no denying it. It's a game that can bring out the worst in you, at times.
Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us.
In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.
You are responsible to each other because when you win a game of football, you only need eight players to perform well.
Football management is such a pressurised thing - horseracing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.
Coach Amodu without question is a colossus and football icon and has over the years made meaningful contribution to Nigerian football both at club and international levels.
Coach Amodu has coached the cream of Nigerian football players and I had the privilege of working with him albeit for a very short time during the preparations for the two-legged Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Egypt.
Nigeria is a great footballing nation and deserves to assume her rightful place in Africa and world football and I am keen to be part of a team that achieves this goal.
My mum made me do kick-ups in the living room. My sister even tried to play football. Everyone was trying to help me.
I used to play football on the streets with my friends and ended up where I am today.
When I was younger I just played football for the fun of it, scoring the maddest goals and trying to come up with new tricks but when you've got to take yourself into a proper match, you've got be serious.
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.
When I play football, I try to win the game. That is part of me. That is who I am.
I could have gone down a very different path, but my parents would not let me give up football.
We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.
I have had interviews and got close to taking a managerial job. I would consider going back into football.
I've got a great life that I really enjoy. But there is something chewing at me inside: that adrenaline rush from football, I miss that.
In hindsight, that time out of football gives you the hunger to want to get back to basics and play football.
I understand football. I have always been a good footballer, and that gets overlooked by most people.
The decisions I've made have not always been the most popular, but when I look back, I want to know I've played for good football teams.
There is a lot of luck in football. Following England is like following Wycombe Wanders or Leyton Orient. You hope for the best and hope you are lucky.
My main regret about my years in football was keeping my mouth shut like a little mouse, not daring to speak out because I was told you left the managers to get on with the job and that the chairman must never interfere with the manager's decisions or the performance of his team.
We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically.
I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go.
These guys live and breathe football; they get something out of going to the training ground every day.
I hear people saying 'the way the game should be played'. Rubbish. That's the worst saying in football. You win the game, then worry about the way it should be played.
I had no plans once I finished my football career, which was a problem, so I had to go looking for work. Television was the one area that it was easier to get a job than anywhere else.
I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and British boys' teams.
I was born in a mining village, and you either played football or played football. If you didn't play, there was something wrong with you.
Playing for 14 years definitely took its toll mentally. I decided when I was playing my last season that when I retired from football I would never go back into it, and I've never regretted that decision.
When I was playing football, I always felt in complete control. When I play golf and come under pressure, it's a completely different ball game.
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