Sadio Mane Quotes

I got my first football when I was two and played my first proper game before I was five. So nothing else was ever an option!

It was only when I went down south that I started to eat, sleep and breathe football.

I probably don't have any room in my mind for anything but football. My dad tells me I'm a total vegetable outside of just knowing football.

My father has this insane, all-consuming passion for sports.

By the time I was 10 years old, my entire life was football. Training, reading, watching, even playing football on PlayStation. I was totally focused on it. I especially loved the creative players - the maestros.

Honestly, the only thing I loved when I was a kid was basketball. I was an athlete when I was a kid, and that was it.

I grew up in a football family, on the sideline. I was a waterboy. It was kinda something I was around my whole life.

For me, there's nothing that beats playing. When I'm not playing, I'll watch games on the television, watch stuff on You Tube, everything. I just live for football, love watching great players.

I have to say I know much more about football than I would like to, because my husband is a rabid football fan, and it's been so horrible.

I grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state.

I grew up in a crazy, gypsy-like household of actors, dancers and loony Broadway people. It was their way of life, and I didn't know anything else.

I didn't realise my upbringing was unusual until my teens. As the child of two actors, I presumed that visiting film sets and being surrounded by colourful characters was normal.

I knew I loved football before I even played it. Uh, but the first time I stepped out on the field playing for the Lakeshore Redskins, I knew that I loved this game. I knew that this was something I wanted to do. And I was only 6 years old, but I loved it.

I grew up in a funny way.

At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.

My son is a Liverpool fan, and he was already kicking a ball before he was one. He was born in the football city; he had no choice.

Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much.

My upbringing as a child was very atypical.

I was the only one in my family who was absolutely focused on acting since I was a kid.

I wanted to be completely and totally entrenched, immersed in this football life, this culture all the way, so you don't even have a thought, an inkling, that my mind is somewhere else.

Football in Italy is like a wonderful sickness, because people are infected with this love for the sport from childhood to old age.

The passion the British people have for football - they live for football.

I am not a dreamer. I am a football romantic.

There wasn't really anything I wanted to do other than acting, which is ridiculous because there were no actors in my family, and we didn't know anything about acting.

First of all, we love football. We want to be on the football field as much as we can be. If we can be out there, it may be stupid, it may be dumb, call me dumb and stupid then, because that's what... I want to be on the football field.