Football Background Quotes

When I started playing basketball, I hated it because football had always been my sport.

My real name is Bob Davis, but for some reason, I got the name Jasper while playing football at the local rec when I was nine years old, and it just stuck. Years later, when someone asked 'Jasper who?' I just said 'Carrott' - but I have no idea why I came out with that particular word.

I didn't play organized football until I was in the seventh grade. Up until that point, I only played at recess and in the backyard.

I've been catching footballs - I've been a wide receiver since I was 15 years old. And every quarterback I've had, for the most part, threw a pretty hard ball. So I'm not getting away from the calluses.

I always watched professional football and my father played at an amateur level, but I didn't think I wanted to become a pro.

I do speak to a few people in non-league. There are a few people in Bristol where my family is based that I used to play with at Yate.

You're seen a certain way in the acting world. To them, you're still a football player and not taken as seriously. They think you're just doing it to be a celebrity, to keep your name out there. They don't think you'll prepare.

You have to have that dog-eat-dog kind of mentality. I think me playing football all my life and having that chip on my shoulder, not really getting the opportunities that I wanted, really carried over to track and field. It allowed me to use all that energy and put it in the direction of being the best track athlete that I could be.

I played for the first time when I was three. My neighbour was six, and I went to train with him. But I don't have many football memories from when I was young.

Everything was really competitive. We used to always do field day, relays. Races. I was always just naturally good at those things. So when I started playing football, I used some of those traits.

All of my football, even my introduction, even my coaches, most of them came from Europe, particularly England. So pretty much my whole footballing education and introduction was through English football.

If I'm having problems, I speak to my older brother, who used to play professional football.

To be honest, I started playing for Belgium in the youth team stages. As a kid, Belgium was all I knew. We played football with my schoolmates as well as at the academy.

I'm not the only guy who doesn't have an independent wrestling background. You know, I have a football background, but I also have a wrestling one.

Being through the England set-up since I was a young lad, passing was the style of football I grew up with.

Richard Dunne comes from a great footballing family... the Dunne family

I come from a football family which has really helped.

I've been in football since I was eight. Of course I know what I'm talking about.

Obviously when I was younger, when I was three years old, I used to kick a football around in the park or in the garden. I've got loads of videos, pictures of me doing it.

In Uruguay, there is a football pitch every hundred metres, whether it is made by grass, small stones, or sand. This has been my football education.

I came from amateur football.

We played a lot of sandlot ball, so we were used to tackling each other, or falling on the concrete, things of that nature. And nine times out of 10, our flag games turned into tackle anyway. So when I got to high school, tackle football was kind of natural.

To have six years of professional football under my belt already is really something.

There is a history of footballers in my family; my granddad played for Notts County and my dad played at county level.

I think that's awesome to have a former player in the GM role, somebody that not only understands the game of football but has played the game of football.