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.
Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.
Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.
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.
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.
If you take guys that love the grind of football and who are passionate about football, it should click regardless if they have the proper talent.
English football is very physical, much more so than Spanish football - I felt it in the first match.
If I have any talent, it's in the artistic end of football. The variation of movement of 11 players and the orchestration of that facet of football is beautiful to me.
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.
Some people have this impression of me: 'Boy, he's always so serious on the field. Football. Football. 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.'
I'm a football fan first and foremost, but I've been given an incredible opportunity to be a football coach in the National Football League.