Football is pretty much played 16 times a year, where training is kind of a year-round thing.
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Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.
There is no way I could have played fourteen years in the NFL if I didn't work my butt off on the practice field perfecting my technique or spend hours upon hours in the film room studying defenses.
English football is really different to football in other countries.
In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday.
In football, you have to grow up quickly, and you're generally more mature than other people your age.
I don't train for football; I train more for a lifestyle.
In hindsight, that time out of football gives you the hunger to want to get back to basics and play football.
Football is not part of that lifestyle anymore.
As football players, our bodies know exactly what time of year it is and what we need to be doing.
In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.
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