When I am not playing or training, I watch football all the time.
I eat football, I sleep football. I am not mad I am just passionate
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?'
I'm addicted to football. When I get outside, I just want to stay on the training pitch.
The game's my life and I'm so passionate about it. When you see your life so intertwined with football it can make things very difficult. You might go and watch a film and start imagining footballers running across the screen, you know?
I'm not one of those people who goes home and has to put football on the TV straight away or has to watch Sky Sports News.
I watch loads of football; whenever I am not playing, I am at home watching matches, including the English league.
These guys live and breathe football; they get something out of going to the training ground every day.
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.
Trust me, you cannot love football any more than I do.
Football in Italy is like a wonderful sickness, because people are infected with this love for the sport from childhood to old age.
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 can't put my mind to anything else. I'm not interested in hanging out or partying. For me, it's all about the pitch: training, playing. But even when I go home, afterwards, it's football the whole time. I think I'm obsessed!
The passion is still there, you can try and walk away from football but it just keeps on coming back.
I remain unashamed to publicly declare my lifelong love of watching football. I have watched thousands upon thousands of games simply because I cared solely about which team won.
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.
I'm thinking about football all the time... This is what I love to do.
It was only when I went down south that I started to eat, sleep and breathe football.
My life is 24 hours talking about football. For me, it is every conversation, every action. It is my life, my passion.
Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered.
I don't see myself being able to stay away from football.
[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably Tory, slavishly conformist Beckham. The Reds are no longer the Bolsheviks. Nobody serious about political change can shirk the fact that the game has to be abolished. And any political outfit that tried it on would have about as much chance of power as the chief executive of BP has in taking over from Oprah Winfrey.
When it comes down to it, I'm thinking about football all the time. When I'm on the golf course, I'm thinking about it. It's never out of your brain.
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.
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.
