I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
From my point of view what I have to do now is appreciate and enjoy what football gave me, but now do something else with the same energy and enthusiasm I gave to football without expecting the same results.
I was on the football team because I wanted to experience the different iconic social classes of high school. So football for me was an attempt to socially integrate in an interesting way. And then I didn't like it anymore and stopped doing it and focused more on drama and science and other forms of art and music.
Football lost its excitement for me.
Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.
It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.
Football has always been a big part of my life. Almost from the day I was born, playing and coaching football were all I really ever wanted to do.
Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.
I was obsessed with football when I was growing up.
It was a very exciting time for me to play professional football, finally.