Juergen Teller Quotes

I grew up a huge jock, a lot of basketball and football. We had a pond in my back yard growing up, and we played a lot of hockey, too. I loved to score goals.

I played football ever since I was a little boy. Coming from a family of six boys, I guess we learned the game of football from a very young age.

My father was a footballer. I used to play a lot as a kid, but not like a team or something, just with my family having fun. It makes your legs stronger and helps your co-ordination.

I need to go play football. I don't care about anything else.

I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.

I played football. I was pretty bad at that.

I have a photographic memory that enables me to visualize what everyone in the huddle is supposed to do on each of the hundreds of plays in our playbook.

My childhood in Adelaide was filled with sport. I played soccer from morning until night.

I have always been around sports my whole life.

When I was growing up, I played football, I loved football.

I played a little basketball. Some football in junior high.

In general I like a guy who is athletic, somebody who can teach me something. Whether it's teaching me a new way to cut on a wave or teach me a three-point conversion or teach me how to dribble a soccer ball. There's something really cool about that.

I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my whole adult life.

Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'

The thing that all sports have in common is that they have no fantasy elements, which is a little weird.

Since childhood, sports has been one of the most important influences in my life.

It's so important for kids to get involved with sports in general at a young age.

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.

You would not want me on your football team.

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

During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first practice, upper classmen pointed out I was tall, so I should try playing QB. Well half an hour later, it was abundantly clear that I should not be the QB.

I wasn't really a work-conscious type of person. I was a player. I loved to play sports.

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

Throwing a ball is not natural, whether it's overhand or underhand.

I wasn't like other boys. At any rate, I wasn't like my three elder brothers: they excelled at football and they were like other boys, going up to bed each night hugging annuals filled with stories about the glories of Pele and Danny McGrain.