Greg Kinnear Quotes

I used to love playing football in high school. I played with the same guys for 10 years.

When I wrestled in College, my team was very good.

I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.

I play football, not to only enjoy it - and I love the challenge of playing and competing with the best players - but I want to have the chance to win games.

I loved playing football, but I hated the games because it's a lot of pressure. I just loved putting on the pads and hitting my friends.

To be able to win a state championship my senior year with the coaches and with some of my closest friends in the world - that was a special memory.

I play football. It's about winning games. It's not about who can talk trash the most.

I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability.

I played softball. I was on an all-star team. I traveled with the team. I loved it.

I grew up in Europe, and soccer was the first organized game I played. When we moved back to the U.S. in the middle of 4th grade, I switched to American football and stopped playing competitively until college, when I played intramurals.

I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school.

I still get a great buzz from rugby.

I played sports growing up in high school.

I enjoy sports movies that don't sugarcoat. One thing that irritates me about sports movies is that they're like, 'The magic of the ball,' and 'The magic of the stadium.' It ain't that magical. When you get hit coming across the middle at 25 miles per hour, the magic's over.

To me, football is very personal. Even as a kid, I looked at football in dramaturgical terms. It wasn't the score that interested me, it was the struggle.

If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates.

You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal.

Growing up, I played softball and I was a cheerleader.

I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.

I played football all my life throughout high school and ran track.

I cherished my time playing high school sports.

There is no drama like the drama on the athletic field.

I was the youngest of about nine boys in the neighborhood, and we played ball all the time, and I looked up to them, and they let me play around with them, and we just had a good time.

The beauty of football is that it's about 11, and another five, at least, are sitting outside. You cannot get competitive.

High school baseball is a passion of mine.