Brian Dennehy Quotes

I definitely want to be known as an educated person as well as being a good football player.

I was not a very good football player when I started out.

Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.

I might not be a great athlete, but I think I'm a real good football player.

For me, sports is a big part of my life. It helped me through high school. It helped me get better grades, because if you don't have good grades, you can't play sports.

Sport is my passion but I have a way to go.

I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.

My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.

I want to improve as a football player, but even more importantly, I really want to improve as a person.

I was a pitcher, and my dad played in college. The hardest day of my life was telling him I was going to quit to focus more on golf. But with golf, I felt like the game can't be perfected, and that motivated me.

I just want to concentrate on my rugby and enjoy it and live in the moment.

I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.

I was a very good student. Procrastinating gives me anxiety, and getting a B really ticked me off. Sure, I didn't always want to do my homework, but I actually really liked school. As nerdy as it sounds, I love learning.

I really focused on three things in high school - my company, basketball and my school work.

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

I think the only time I doubted myself was my senior year in high school. I was not offered a Division I scholarship. I remember a scout from Ohio State coming in and looking at my film. He was all excited to meet me. Then he met me and I was 5'10" and he said that I was not a Division I quarterback.

I still have the competitive spirit, which is good.

I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.

My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put yourself in good, positive surroundings.

My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life.

I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.

I loved school. Not sure how much I focused on the education; just had fun and played lacrosse for seven years. It was lucky I had sport, which I was good at, so it didn't matter that I wasn't great on the academic side, or not brilliant at drama. Although I am still bitter about not being in the school choir. Furious, actually.

I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.