Adam Granduciel Quotes

When I was a child, I was an Arsenal fan.

I can't remember the last time I've been to a football game as a spectator.

Having grown up there, my dad in 1967 took me to the Rams-Eagles game, and I've been a Rams fan since I was a kid.

As far as sitting down and watching a sports event, that's just not part of my day or part of my night.

I have said many times that I was a Juventus fan when I was a child.

I lived in Cleveland for a summer when I was 12, and I was a ball boy for the Browns, which few people know.

On our way to the Super Bowl XV Championship, the Oakland Raiders played a frigid 1981 AFC playoff game in Cleveland, in which the temperatures plunged to -35 degrees. I remember looking up in the stands to see a dedicated Cleveland Brown fan celebrating topless.

I still haven't gotten that little something out of my system that I'm still not a kid going to a football game. I'm excited.

When I was eight or nine, I came to London for the day from Swindon and went to The National Gallery. I remember standing in Trafalgar Square with my best friend Tim, who was covered in pigeons because I put bird seed on his head.

If I'm honest, the thing I remember the most was the team mascot, Freddie the Falcon. I really remember there was a McDonald's nearby, and I remember eating a cheeseburger in the playground when the Falcon appeared. I'm not sure my dad appreciates that being my favorite memory of him playing.

I do have a weakness for Liverpool and I do want them to be champions.

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.

I was in Minnesota in 2014 when Adrian Peterson was suspended. In that situation, we were about to play the Patriots when his suspension came out the Friday before the game.

Everybody knows me, I circle the Patriots. That's what I do.

Super Bowl V was the Colts against the Cowboys and Jim O'Brien kicked a 32 yard field goal to beat the Cowboys. I was traumatized by it. Everyone at school knew I was the only Cowboy fan in the area. I didn't want to go to school and I begged and pleaded with my parents. Those are indelible memories when you are a kid.

For me, watching football played in the snow is abominable, as in snowman.

I support Leeds United, and like any fan, I dreamed of playing for them. I tried out at the club and also tried rugby and cricket, and triathlon didn't really become part of my life until I was 16 or 17 - but it was the sport I enjoyed most.

For me, the Parc des Princes is special, somewhere I'd go to spend my pocket money.

I remember getting my first Leeds shirt, me and my brother.

When I was a little child, I watched every game in the Champions League, and now I can play it for myself.

I like Everton. If I'm going to cheer for that kind of football team, I'm going to cheer for Everton. But the Seahawks are my passion.

I'm not gonna lie, I'm a huge Patriots fan, so I like Tom Brady.

I always played football with my friends on the streets of Eure, in Normandy, not far from Paris.

I grew up in a humble neighbourhood in Argentina called Dock Sud. From my house, about 200 metres away was a football pitch. That's where I spent my childhood. It's a neighbourhood where everybody helped each other because there was a lot of difficulties. There, I grew up happily, because I learned a lot of things.

I owe a lot to playing on the street. And what was even better than playing on the street was playing football with my friends in the local graveyard. It was fantastic. We forgot what the time was and didn't even go home for our meals.