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Football is so barbaric. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by playing it. I feel almost like I escaped from boot camp.

— Brian Bosworth

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

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 had sacrificed my entire life to play football.

— Brian Bosworth

I'm not even thinking about going back to play football at all. My mind's made up. I'm done.

— Keyshawn Johnson

I want to play the football I feel.

— Pep Guardiola

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

Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.

— Woody Hayes

Football is a violent sport. Somebody's going to get hurt. It's the game. Just hopefully, you're on the good side of it.

— Ndamukong Suh

✗Opposing Perspectives

The game of football is something I dearly love, and there's nothing else I'd rather be doing.

— Dak Prescott

I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you.

— Troy Polamalu