Giving a true speech, a true, passionate speech, is old-school football.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For some reason in today's society, people look up to football players and you have a voice. And it's because of that voice you have the opportunity to impact people's lives.
Football is a passionate game. It excites us.
There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.
But we're not supposed to talk anything besides football.
The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.
My Hall of Fame speech was about respect for the game.
Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.
For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.
Football is a sport of emotions, and we have to capture that in our films.
There is no free speech in football. Information is parsed by monosyllabic head coaches, who dictate who gets to speak to whom and when.