Barry Levinson Quotes

I had grown up during a time when Notre Dame football was held in the highest esteem. I listened to all of the games on the radio.

I lived in Wisconsin for a while, so I keep my eyes on the Packers. I grew up in San Diego, so there's the Chargers, but outside of that, I'm really kind of lame because I don't have a specific team I pull for.

Traditionally, Seattle has been a great sports town and great football town. What the Huskies have achieved over the years has been pretty amazing. That's how I got my first taste of football - when I went with my father to Husky Stadium.

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

I would not be on the level did I not confess that I always have believed that the old Browns were a great team, one of the greatest ever organized.

My early memories are full of football talk around the house, of Dad standing on the terraces at Ayresome Park, of the occasional precious new pair of boots.

In my past, I've been blessed to be able to play in front of the Leeds fans and Anderlecht fans.

I miss the preparation for game week and all the things. I miss the draft and getting prepared for that. I grew up in this business, that's all I've ever known.

When I started at Portsmouth in 1974 there was a strong National Front element in the crowd and they would abuse me even though I played for their team. Racist abuse was part of the game and it was never challenged.

My dad really liked Didier Drogba and there was always a Chelsea game on when I was growing up.

You go to Madrid, you have four or five teams at the maximum level. You go to Milan, and it's the same. Napoli is similar to Newcastle in terms of everyone supporting one club in the city. It's positive and unique when you have that.

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

I'm a fan of Independiente, so I'd naturally like to wear their colours, and I also like Banfield, who gave me a lot as a young player. Either would be nice.

I was born with football - my brothers, my dad. I played football when I was a kid. I mean, you know, it was part of life. It's a part of growing up. It's - you know, it's a way of life.

I can tell my grandkids that I played with Drew Brees and Tom Brady, and Flacco will definitely be added to that list.

I lived Real Madrid, with all the perfect things to grow up.

When I was growing up, I played football, I loved football.

If you do anything with the Cowboys, there's an interest in it. And there are people who constantly want to write books about our teams in the '90s. They want to interview me. I say, 'Look, I've done it a million times. I'm just not interested. What's left to tell?'

Sometimes I miss European football.

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.

As a kid, we used to play wearing a Liverpool shirt in the streets.

Well, yes, but it's not about the football." "You're saying that football is not about football?" "It's the sharing," she said. "It's being part of the crowd. It's chanting together. It's all of it. the whole thing.

Peyton was the best, my favorite quarterback growing up.

The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.

The roots of our Soccer Tribe lie deep in our primeval past.