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Football and me have never got on. My instinct and love for the harder end of contact had always meant I was perhaps a little too heavy-handed for football. Somehow it left me feeling unfulfilled.

I've got no interest in football. My brother's a footballer, too, and I was dragged to the freezing pitch every week as a child. I don't see much glamour in it.

Once you're a football player, you're a football player for life. You always think of yourself in terms of that. We all do. It's hard to get rid of when you can't play anymore.

I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames; I'm really into them.

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.

I was obsessed with football when I was growing up.

I play football, and most football players are camera shy. We just want to be left alone; we just want to stick to what we do.

Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull.

Every player feels differently about playing football. We are all different people. I am the type who wants to win all the time. I hate to lose.

I love football, I've never really taken an interest in anything else.