I was playing tackle football in the street at five years old. Always being physical. Always being tough, just like a man's man. It was just always about being tough.
There's a big difference between being good and being nice. Being good involves tough choices - tough love.
I love to play football. Why would I run away from playing football?
The first couple of years in the minors were tough for me. My numbers were there, but being away from home so young was tough.
Being on stage isn't so tough compared to the football pitch.
I'm a tough guy, but I'm a good guy, I'm durable because when you play football they want you being tough, not just because you sprain your ankle crying "Mama, mama!"
I'm a football fanatic. I love the game of football. I love learning new things, and I love being taught things. So I try to learn as much as I can, and even at a young age, I was really focused on how to be better and trying to learn all the techniques.
More than anything tough, I play 'Madden'. I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames. I'm really into them.
I love playing football and being in teams that have the ball and play good football.
Everyone's got talent at the level we're at. But being a smart, tough football player - there's a huge premium for that.
Bavaro's probably as tough of a - physically and mentally as tough a football player as I've ever coached. So, I would put him in the rare category there.
Actually, I'm for football. But I'm for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are.
It's very tough in the U.K. For me, it was totally different. English football and French football are not the same.
Football is business. It's all about being quick, quick, quick - nobody has any patience nowadays. But then again, that is how things are in normal life, away from football.
I love the atmosphere football brings; I love being around my teammates; I love the struggle in football. I love the fact that it is a part of my life. I don't look at it as any more important or less important as any other part of my life.
It's very tough to be away from someone you love or you're used to seeing all the time. But if you're truly in love, it will work. But it is difficult.