My parents weren’t very sporty, and football wasn’t part of my everyday life. I was never a massive football fan either, but, like everyone else, I used to watch matches on TV. – Stanislas Wawrinka
I’m a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, climbing rocks and all that good stuff, so that’s always been fun. – Taylor Kinney
I’ve always felt that people put me down, and I’d fight back. I played football 15 years, and nobody gave me any credit, and they never will do. – Vinnie Jones
In football, it’s the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen. – Warren Moon
Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins. – Vince Lombardi
People care about my personal life. But really I’m dorky! I drink beer and go to football games. And ya know, sit in my house in a t-shirt on the weekends and play with my dog! – Sophia Bush
I was not a very good football player. My coach hated me – I don’t know why, I guess it’s probably because I wasn’t very talented. – Thomas Rhett
I passed the 11-plus, but it was decided that I should take the Common Entrance exam to Monmouth School, the nearest independent. I was never entirely comfortable there, as they didn’t have girls, and they played rugby instead of football. – Saul David
I want to improve as a football player, but even more importantly, I really want to improve as a person. – Tim Tebow
I had to have help getting up these stairs because I’ve been tackled by so many lions and tigers. Really. I’m like an old football player. – Tippi Hedren
I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed. – Vinnie Jones
Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don’t seem to matter. It’s constant and harsh sometimes. – Wayne Rooney
I’ve always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I’m always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I’m super-active in that sense. – Taylor Lautner
Football was a wonderful experience for me. It was a means of, oh, I don’t know, sustaining for much of my youth. In times of trouble, I’ve always had football. I always knew I was a football player. And that was a comfort on many occasions. – Tommy Lee Jones
From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football – referees included – are always under terrific scrutiny. – Walter Smith
Even though people involved in racing think that it has a big sporting stage, it is a minority sport compared to some of the other high-profile events: football, Formula One or golf. – Tony McCoy
I have always felt like a fish in water with football, Fox, speeches, riding horses, and raising cattle. – Terry Bradshaw