I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I loved playing football. In this particular match the ball happened to hit my right eye, the only one which I could see light and colour with.
You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.
Where I come from, all of us wanted to be footballers. We played all the time; that's all we did at school or wherever until it went dark and you couldn't see the ball.
When handling the ball, I always would look for daylight, wherever there was daylight.
I played a lot of football when I was younger. I'm a good receiver, actually.
I played football all my life throughout high school and ran track.
I had sacrificed my entire life to play football.
I've lived most people's dream by playing football.
I try to only read light things when I'm working on my books, and in the evenings I watch a lot of mindless TV. I have to break up the 'dark,' or I wouldn't be a very happy person.
Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
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