Junior Seau Quotes

I grew up with an older brother who was always stronger and faster and better than me at everything, but I was close enough in age to try and compete, so we had a competitive childhood.

The reality of growing up is we changed schools so many times, my brother was my best friend. We have a five-year age gap, and my brother inspired me. He started boxing, and I just want to show that I could do things better than him.

I grew up playing defense all the time with my older brothers and the older players.

My mom had me at a young age, like 20, and she was the oldest child. All her brothers were seven and 10, so I was like a younger brother more so than the oldest child. I was the younger brother to all my uncles, so they were going through their childhood and their teenage years, and I was right there.

Sometimes I played as a goalkeeper with my brother and his friends - they were all older, and nobody wanted to go in goal, so it had to be me!

I've actually never played with any of my brothers before. They've always been too old for me.

Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference.

One of the more bizarre games I played as a kid was something called 'kill the man.' It was a cross between football and rugby, which found the person carrying the ball a target of some hungry tacklers. I still don't know why we enjoyed the game because it was impossible to win.

I was the youngest of six kids, and my brothers and sisters were kind of a lot older than me. And the one sister that was, like, in a close age range - she was five years older than me. She was my closest sister in age, and she was a loser.

I remember when I was 11 playing against guys who were as old as 22. I just stayed outside and shot from there.

I grew up as a swimmer. And my brother was a football player and I played football.

Pops played football for LSU. Ever since I can remember, I've been working with him running routes and stuff.

Instead of being like the other kids going to soccer or football practice, I was wrestling every day.

Thank God I had football. I remember when it used to rain, all the kids would run outside and play football in the puddles, just splashing around, having the best time.

I really actually started when I was 10 years old, but before that, I loved to play with Father because he played as an ex-player. I just enjoyed it, so I started at 10 years old with Father to be a proper football player.

My brother-in-law was a Tottenham fan. He introduced me to football and brought me to Tottenham. At the time I just wanted to play football so I would go anywhere to play.

Young boys and girls should be given the chance to play football.

My favorite football memory isn't beating Florida or winning the bowl game ... My favorite memories are of playing football with my brothers and my dad in the front yard when I was younger.

I was a late developer and, at the age of 15, I almost thought of quitting football.

I enjoy playing football with my three older brothers Rick, Ryan and Bobby.

Yeah, I don't think I'm taking my shirt off to play flag football in the park with the kids.

I remember, when I was at Sunderland, we made the FA Cup final and played in front of 20,000 at Derby.

Growing up, I've always been the baby. I'm the younger of two girls in my family, my friends are always older than I am, and I'm a rather small person in stature as well.

I started doing well at Villa when I was six or seven.

I have played quite a few Test matches in the back garden with my two brothers.