Quotes About Football

It was an honour and a privilege to work for Arsene Wenger.

Playing alongside Messi is special for me. He's a player I always wanted to play with. I have played against him with Brazil, but to play alongside him is a privilege.

I know that every football fan would love to do my job; get paid to watch football and say it how they see it, and I know I'm in a very privileged position.

Football, at the end of the day, is a little kids' game that grown men get to play. I'm just privileged to get to do that every day.

We're in a privileged position in sport and, above all, in football. We have a platform.

I'm in such a privileged position to class football as my full-time job, to be captain of England, captain of Manchester City. I'm very lucky.

Captaining Leicester is one of the greatest honours in my career so I feel very privileged.

I'm sure there were concussions galore back when we played, but the doctors would just say, 'Shake it off,' or something like that... or 'Come on, you got to be tough... get back in there.' I see so many guys who played pro football in their 50s now who are so debilitated from having played it.

College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.

I am the only player who has been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and am the second-best player in my family.

I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?

Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.

I'd followed the strange deaths of pro football players for years, sensing something odd going on.

Dead at 50. Mike Webster! Nine-time Pro Bowler. Hall of Famer. 'Iron Mike,' legendary Steelers center for fifteen seasons.

I can watch SportsCenter on a loop, like, five times in a row until my girlfriend is like, 'Seriously? It's the same highlights!' It just brings me peace, I think. Any kind of game - college basketball, college football, obviously anything pro.

I do have great memories from when my pops got inducted. Obviously, knowing him and knowing how hard he worked in pro football for so long and what he sacrificed, the physical side of it, the injuries, and the grinding and now eight years into the NFL you know what hard work that is.

Leaving college early to play pro football was the best thing that happened to me. I got to drop the most boring poetry class. Dumbest thing I did was being in that class.

I played a little pro football, didn't make much money.

It is, to me, a goal of mine to come back to Hawaii and to play in the Pro Bowl.

It means a lot to be Pro Bowl. There's a lot of people who vote and they watch football a lot.

I've spent my entire adulthood in pro football.

I wasn't a huge pro fan growing up; I wasn't loyal to any one team. Don't really know the divisions, even really the conferences. I know most of the conferences, but some of those, I really have no clue.

A pro football player is lucky. He has a chance to meet a lot of people and make some potential business connections.

In 2014, I bought controlling interest in Pro Football Focus. At the time we had 60 employees evaluating every player on every play of the NFL season.