Gregg Easterbrook Quotes

I can remember my father gave me a huge history of football for my 12th birthday - I used to read that a lot. I can remember thinking it was cool that something I was interested in even had a history. Most things I loved didn't.

It is well documented that I am a lifelong football fan. My love of the British game started with the 1966 World Cup.

I think it was fantastic being in the 49ers Hall of Fame.

I also wanted people to know that football actually started in China almost 3000 years ago.

Football really felt like a private thing when I was in my teens because it wasn't on television, for a start, apart from 'Match of the Day.'

If you were asked to go on 'Mastermind,' what would your specialist subject be? I wouldn't have a clue what I could answer questions on. Birmingham City Football Club would be a start, I suppose, but with a hundred odd years of history, thousands of matches, players and incidents to recall, even access to Google would leave me struggling.

In this country, since footballs made from pigs' bladders were whacked into goals without nets, we've played on full-size pitches. Whatever our age.

Yes, in 1983, I had the opportunity to sign for Liverpool.

I know a lot about football. I know a lot about this game.

The Fort Lauderdale Strikers is a team with history, tradition.

We often compare footballers with players of the past.

It's special for me to coach the team Lombardi coached.

My brother was an avid Stoke City fan and a good footballer. We shared a room, growing up, and the walls were covered with 1970s Stoke players, like Peter Shilton, Gordon Banks, and Jimmy Greenhoff.

There was a point in time in Wisconsin football when people used to just go to watch the band.

Mauricio had a relationship with my granddad and especially my dad, because they played against each other with Instituto and Newell's Old Boys, and my uncle went to school with him when they were children.

If you walked into my house, there wouldn't be one thing to do with football in there.

I didn't start playing football a lot until I was in high school. I played it in seventh and eighth grade, but I didn't play Pop Warner or anything.

I say college football began with Rockne.

I've always liked the history of the game of football, and then, when you mention the Cleveland Browns to me, it brings back vast memories, and I can't just wait to try to build and establish this thing and just move this thing forward.

Everton as a football club has a great history.

In Europe, the leagues have been around 100 years.

I don't really know football from the Seventies and Eighties. It's all myths and legends to me.

Neuer is one of the best goalkeepers in history.

As the NFF Historian, I'll have a new platform to indulge my passion for the most emotional, colorful and hysterical game ever developed by mankind and Walter Camp.

In 1961 somebody could've hit a home run to win the game and the next day the headline was about the M&M boys not hitting a home run. But everyone was real good about it. Instead of getting mad they joked about it.