Playing Football Quotes

It took a while to find a passion for another career that was as strong as the passion that I had for football. Once I found it in acting, it was simple. Use the tools you were given from playing football and apply it to your new passion. I have done that through acting, producing and writing.

Motivation is not something I struggle with. I love playing football, I love being in training.

I always want to be the best at what I do. As a kid, whatever I was doing, if I was playing football or whatever I was applying my energy to at the time, I always wanted to do it to the best of my abilities. And I was always interested in finding out how I could do it better.

Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.

Everything I have achieved in football is due to playing football in the streets with my friends

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of going out there and playing football.

There's no doubt about it; playing football and how tough it is on the body afterwards.

I've felt a little tired, but I'm only 24. I love playing football. That's my job and that's what I love doing.

I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.

I just always felt I'd be playing football in the NFL - or at least playing for a living.

Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.

Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.

My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.

Remember, if you don't have a goal you're not playing football, you're just kicking a ball around the park.

This is what you should do, let it rest. I'm playing football for LSU. I'm preparing for R-Kansas. I'm preparing for the next game, and the next game after that.

What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of playing. And to try to improve all aspects of my personality that can help me get near this ideal way of playing football.

I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that's playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time.

Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.

Whether we meditate individually or collectively, there is one thing we absolutely must do: we have to meditate consciously. Making an unconscious effort is like forcing oneself to play football in spite of one's utmost unwillingness. One plays, but gets no joy. Conscious effort is like playing football most willingly. One gets real joy. Similarly, conscious meditation gives us inner Delight from the soul.

If you're not frustrated that you're not playing football then you shouldn't be playing football

If I wasn't playing football, I'd be a juvenile probation officer.

I think my boys handled it pretty much the same way with their children, but my grandsons all ended up playing football or lacrosse.

I love playing football. I started playing for a school team, which is fun, and I play a lot of five a side. I nowhere near good enough to go professional but it's definitely one of my main hobbies. I play three times a week.

When I was playing football, I was getting up to 240 pounds, and they wanted me to get to 260.

If you take the money away, a lot of the footballers would still be playing football. So, the money has nothing to do with it.

My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.

I led the NFL in attempts the past two years and they really didn’t go out and get a quarterback to help me so I knew it’s going to be all on me again. I could see my mortality as a football player, that I’m not going to be able to do this much longer. It just became obvious to me that playing football for me is not going to be fun, not something I’m going to enjoy and it’s time for me to do something different.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.

I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.

You're watching your kids playing football and you're not present. It's like the worst... it's horrible. I despise myself for it. I think it's a particularly male thing. Being present and in the moment with your kids is something a lot of men struggle with.

It was fun, having speed and being able to jump. Especially playing football. I played wide receiver and defensive back.

My first experience with football was not very good because I didn't plan on playing football. I was just playing hookie one day and I was a sophomore and decided not to go to class. And the principal - normally he does his rounds and I thought I had him down pretty good where he was going to be - he sort of walked up behind me and scared me. He noticed I could run real fast. So that's how I got introduced to football.

There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So many differences that people don't realize. It's not just about playing football and getting paid to do it. There's a lot of things that you have to deal with.

I had concussions as a kid playing football and basketball, and know what it feels like and to have someone say 'Just rub some dirt on it, and get back in there.'

I loved playing football. In this particular match the ball happened to hit my right eye, the only one which I could see light and colour with.

When I was playing for tips in college, I felt a fire in my soul. I had the same principle of focus that I had learned playing football.

Being a footballer is not just about wearing the shirt and playing football on the pitch. You have to be clean, you have to do right things, you have to show courage, you have to show many many things you know. I always say that you play the same way on the pitch as you do in life.

I don't want to be the center of attention, which is ironic. I hate having all eyes on me - unless it's for my job, and my job is playing football. I'm not that attention-hungry.

I went to Dartmouth College, graduated, and had the opportunity to play two professional sports - I played for the New England Patriots in the NFL and professional lacrosse for the Boston Blazers. I had an injury, so I had to stop so I could heal. But when I was playing football, I wasn't making a lot of money; I wasn't a superstar.

Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.

Basketball also helps you learn to move your feet by playing defense and guarding guys, and that all carries over to playing football with staying square and having good footwork.

I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.

To any young kid who wants to be a footballer, I would simply say: Have fun playing football and enjoy the team - spirit. That's the right attitude; that will bring you pleasure and fulfillment in football. A baker cannot live on bread he made yesterday, and a footballer cannot live on his last game. It's about the here and now.

I always knew I would sing. I just didn't know if I would be successful or not. But I sang at school, I sang at parties, I sang at church. Everyone always asked me to sing. I'd be playing football with my friends and my parents would ask me to sing for their guests. I was never very happy about that because I wanted to play football.

There's nothing wrong with ankles. But only if you're playing football in the park.

I love playing football but I am like everyone else, I hate losing and love winning.

You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.