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If you're talking about nuclear physics, I have to defer to the next guy. But if you're talking about football, I don't have to take a back seat to anyone.

Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.

What happens is once you start to understand football, you realise that it's not just about the physical side of the game and chasing after a ball. It's a strategic sport which requires a lot of intelligence. It's a very mental game.

Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.

Many people, many girls have tried to teach me the rules to football. And you would think that it would get in my head that way, but I just don't understand it.

Boxing is a great example of it, but in football, sometimes you're taking greater hits than boxers. When you have one man going full speed against another man, and those heads are colliding, it's just the fact of science you're going to have results.

Football is easy when things are going well, but when its not, it becomes the biggest test.

Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.

In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.