A Quote by Gianfranco Zola

I stopped playing football. And life wasn't easy without football.

Gianfranco Zola

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Easy Football Life Playing Playing Football Stopped Without

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Gianfranco Zola
Italian - Athlete
Born: July 5, 1966

I got injured just before we filmed 'Ninja Warrior,' which stopped me playing football with my mates. I haven't played football since. I'm crocked now, my back has gone and I feel like my body has packed in.

Chris Kamara

I respect his decisions, but football without Messi is not football. It is very hard to imagine football without him.

Neymar

I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.

Eric Cantona

All the pain I had, it was not worth it. My ankle created so many problems, it affected my day-to-day living. But at that time football was my whole life. Now I am older, I have had a life without football. You can still have a good life - there is more than football.

Marco van Basten

These kids are the future of the National Football League. They're the next generation that will be playing high school football, NCAA football, and some even to the pros.

Troy Vincent

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.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

Social networking sites are an easy way to insult people. People have sent me messages saying that they are praying for me to get injured. Such messages are not nice, because I love playing football: I love playing for my club; I love playing football for Ghana.

Kevin-Prince Boateng

I played football first. I love football. I'm a die-hard Broncos fan. I loved football, but in the offseason, I started playing basketball, and I just fell in love with the game. I've been playing basketball ever since 5th grade.

Chauncey Billups

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.

Diego Costa

Oftentimes, even myself as I've come through my entire career from high school all the way up here, everything has been football, football, football. And then you realize that life is much bigger than this game, especially when you start thinking about life after football and what you want to leave behind.

Malcolm Jenkins

There are a lot of guys who football is all they have. And I love football to death, it got me here, it's what I've been doing since I was nine years old, but football ends at a point in time and you've got to be prepared for life after football.

Mohamed Sanu

Football in Murphy is very different. It's very passionate and you breathe football everywhere. In every square there are some children playing football.

Paulo Gazzaniga

Football has always been a big part of my life. Almost from the day I was born, playing and coaching football were all I really ever wanted to do.

Bobby Bowden

When I was three or four, only football was in my head. I went 10 years, and nothing changed - only football, football, football. The strange thing is, nobody played football in my family before.