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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.

— Stanislas Wawrinka

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I didn't realise how my life was changing. When I was 17, 18, 20, I didn't realise how big football was and everything around football. How many people live for football and love football. I was a professional, but I was a supporter.

— Fernando Torres

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.

— Jon Hamm

I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.

— Taylor Lautner

I've grown up watching football my whole life.

— Marisa Miller

My parents were great at making sure I got out of bed when I needed to play football on a Sunday morning and that I was ready after school to go to training on a Tuesday and Thursday. But it was never forced upon me or rammed down my throat. If it had been, I could have ended up hating sport.

— Greg Rutherford

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.

— Reggie Watts

I was a hockey player. I played hockey forever. That was my life and my job until I got injured, so I get sports, and I get the sports atmosphere, the feeling around other athletes, but I never played football.

— Wyatt Russell

✗Opposing Perspectives

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.

— Bobby Bowden

I was obsessed with football when I was growing up.

— Michael Sheen

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.

— Tommy Lee Jones