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Football was a wonderful experience for me. It was a means of, oh, I don't know, sustaining for much of my youth. In times of trouble, I've always had football. I always knew I was a football player. And that was a comfort on many occasions.

Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.

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 changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it's a beautiful game in many respects, one that allows you to follow a player from boyhood through manhood.

I was obsessed with football when I was growing up.

My parents weren't very sporty, and football wasn't part of my everyday life. I was never a massive football fan either, but, like everyone else, I used to watch matches on TV.

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.

I love football, football is my life.

Football has been my life for as long as I can remember.