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Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It gives us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about.

To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it.

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.

It's about players making choices as they play, and then dealing with the consequences of those choices. It's about you telling your story, not me telling mine. It's about you.

If someone were to actually come to one of our training sessions, there's lots of flipping and sweating and crying and blood going on all over the place. I mean, if that doesn't qualify it as a sport, then I don't know what does.

It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

Sports should not become routine. It should be about passion.

The important thing about a sport is the people who devote their lives to it.