Al Michaels Quotes

I was obsessed with football when I was growing up.

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.

These guys live and breathe football; they get something out of going to the training ground every day.

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.

Living for football has saturated me.

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.

I live for football and consume it whenever I can.

My whole life has always been football and that only. Since I was six years old, I've only really thought about football. I used to watch it on TV, play video games, and so on. I just love football. Some people joke that I am too into it, but football just sums up my life.

I would say, 24/7, I am thinking about football.

You can go to the pictures or read a book, but football constantly comes back into your mind. It's not a job, it's a life. It takes up your time, thoughts and energy and it can damage relationships with those around you.

I revere football. I love the game. You don't have to wonder if I will miss it. I will absolutely miss it.

I know how much football means in England. They love it. That's why it's great to be here.

My life is 24 hours talking about football. For me, it is every conversation, every action. It is my life, my passion.

Watching all the football over the weekend - and having to wait until Monday night to play - gets you ready, gets you firing.

Everyone just plays football, don't they? It is just part of life in England. Once I started I just totally got the bug and never lost it.

No one loves football more than me.

I don't see myself being able to stay away from football.

I'm thinking about football all the time... This is what I love to do.

Brazil eats, sleeps and drinks football. It lives football!

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.

Nothing jazzes me up like football. I've acquired more passion of the years, not less. Not to love it wouldn't make sense.

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 watch a lot of football. It was always my hobby. My wife just sits there with a bored face, thinking, 'Is he really watching this?'

When I am not playing or training, I watch football all the time.

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