I respect his decisions, but football without Messi is not football. It is very hard to imagine football without him.
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.
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.
If I could play football, I'd play football. But not women's football - real football. Or I'd just date a quarterback.
I do have a son. He's out of school now. He never played football. And it had nothing to do with me. I was actually crushed that he didn't play football. I thought, 'Oh my God, this is awful.' My brothers all played football. My dad played football.
Even without football, football doesn't define Shaquem Griffin. It's who he can help that defines him.
A lot of the things that I put before football, was really not fun anymore without football.
Football is like my family: everything. It's my dream, what I have always wanted to do and without football I'm not happy.
We must have football. What would this country be without football in October?
I stopped playing football. And life wasn't easy without football.
For what my generation did and went through and so forth, and what these glamour boys earn for what little they play, it's a joke. Is it football? Are you guys football players? Is that what they call football? It's not iron-man football, where you stay on the field for 60 minutes. Everybody! We were iron men. Not a bunch of pussyfoots.
When I was a little bitty boy, I was a fan of boxing. But in Louisiana, it's football, football, football, and then everything else.
In football, we never know what will happen. That's why football is so beautiful, and a lot of people love football.
Actually, I'm for football. But I'm for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are.
Some people have this impression of me: 'Boy, he's always so serious on the field. Football. Football. Football.'
Some people have this impression of me: 'Boy, he's always so serious on the field. Football. Football. Football.