Quotes About Football

The Big Ten has great offensive lines and great offensive-line coaching. It prepared me pretty well for the NFL.

When I was younger, I initially hated football because they put me on the offensive line because I was the biggest kid.

I think you need to be aggressive. That's offensive football.

When the Broncos or the Steelers are winning everybody wants defense. When the Rams and Saints are scoring 50 points a game, it seems everybody is looking for a young offensive mind.

But when an offensive sputters and looks out of synch, you can bet one of the defensive linemen is responsible.

It's true I was interested in going to Everton, but I didn't accept the offer.

As far as I know, Mr. Watzke has not said he would sell me if somebody offered 100m. He has emphasised that the club would like to continue working with me. The club is just greedy for success - and so am I.

Milan offered me something. I was very interested by the project. It did not happen for many reasons.

I was offered the opportunity at the Mariners to pass on my experiences and wisdom in order to develop the football club back into the football club that it once was.

I had offers from Celtic and Southampton as well.

When Atletico tried to buy me back, I did everything I could to make it possible. I had offers from clubs in France and Italy, but I would not have left Chelsea for any other side - only for Atletico Madrid.

I had two offers coming out of high school in football and with more resources and things like that it could have been 20.

Offers from Madrid or Barca will come when they come, but my mentality is to continue growing as a player.

I love football and my country, so I remain ready for any interesting offers.

When I played for Hannover I had several offers, also - as I have been told - from Hamburg, Bremen and Bayern. Back then I already was a German international and Bayern would have loved to have the complete German national team.

A move away from Arsenal did not fall through because I had no offers to move.

Liverpool followed me for a long time. When I arrived in the offices there, they showed me cassettes of me in the Under-15s. Everyone knew me. I couldn't believe it.

I would like to change the refereeing system. The pressure that is put on an official in a match is too large.

Sometimes officials should look at English football and let us play more. I like their system because, in Europe, their referees are more lenient.

I went to a football game, and people were shouting my dad's name, and I was like, 'What? Oh my God.'

Because my brother liked Michigan, I liked Michigan, and by the nature of that, I didn't like Ohio State.

I go back to Francis Schmidt. Francis Schmidt was the Ohio State coach who hired me.

I think people who grow up in one particular environment, like the Alabama-Auburn game, they don't ever get the same appreciation for the Ohio State-Michigan game or the Michigan State-Notre Dame game or the Michigan-Michigan State game, the Browns and the Steelers.

There's only one professional team in Columbus, the Blue Jackets, but Ohio State is a football state.