Charles Woodson Quotes

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 know I did not play an 11-a-side match until I was 12; even beyond that, we tended to play smaller-sized matches on smaller pitches.

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.

We used to play touch football, where you put the little rag in your pocket. I was good because I was fast. I wasn't the greatest at catching. Sometimes the ball would come so hard and fast that it'd knock the wind out of me.

Football was really my least favorite sport and the last sport that I ended up picking up as a kid. My dad started me off with baseball, which most kids did at that time. I really enjoyed basketball. That was my favorite sport.

My generation put in a lot more hours playing football after school than kids today. These days, all the football these kids play, they play at their clubs, so the clubs need to work seriously on the basic skills.

Prior to high school, I played a lot of neighborhood football.

I didn't do any football stuff when I was a kid... Mostly baseball and basketball the whole time. That's all I did. I played football starting in seventh grade. As I got older, I started playing a little bit more. Then in high school, I really fell in love with it.

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.

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

I didn't play organized football until I was in the seventh grade. Up until that point, I only played at recess and in the backyard.

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 started playing football in a school back in Sao Vicente when I was five years old, going towards six. Those were my first steps, among those kids, and then I kept going.

As a kid, I loved contact sports, especially American football and boxing.

I love football. I played it into two years of college.

I started playing football in the streets.

I started off playing sports when I was five years old. I played three or four sports all throughout the year.

Coaching for tackles? That's something you do with seven-year-olds, when you show them how to stand and when to make a block. It is one of the basics of the game. No Premier League manager needs to coach it.

I loved football as a kid.

The game of football requires attention constantly. If you miss one play, you can miss a lot of action - unlike some other sports.

I started playing full-equipment football when I was 6 years old. My mom actually got me started in it.

I played baseball, football, basketball my whole life growing up.

I haven't been an athlete in school or college, though I have played basketball and football.

Wrestling, football, basketball, and baseball were the four things I was obsessed with as a kid.

I was eight years old and I was playing rugby for my local club.