It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing for the Lions. I consider the Lions' players, coaches, staff, management and fans my family. I leave on good terms with everyone in the organization.
Burnley Football Club helped me mature from a boy to a man and I can't thank them everyone from the club enough, from the board to the staff at the training ground and the staff at the club.
The NFL is a brotherhood - if you think about all the millions of people that live in America and there's 1,900 people in the NFL. That's not that many, so everybody knows each other.
One of my brothers, Serge, was at a couple of professional clubs on trial, including Palace when they had Ashley Cole on loan. He was a winger, though left-footed, and I learned a lot of my skills from him.
Football has always been in my blood. It's more than just an occupation, but as you get a little bit older and wiser, you want to be able to pick and choose and make sure you get the right club at the right time.
Everyone that plays for Liverpool always stays in the Liverpool family.
I grew up in a football family, on the sideline. I was a waterboy. It was kinda something I was around my whole life.
Richard Dunne comes from a great footballing family... the Dunne family
Barca have given me everything, and I feel at home here.
There was always football in my family: my dad, big and little brothers, even my mum used to play.
I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
I come from a football family which has really helped.
We've got some talented people in my family in regards to football, and we do it the right way.
The biggest family in the world is football, because football has more associate - and FIFA, for example - has more associates than UNESCO.
I got to know the world of football fans and their pride in it, how they would find a family away from home. Most of them came from broken families. It always had a bit of romance to me, when I went to the game with all these boys that would just die for each other.
My mum made me do kick-ups in the living room. My sister even tried to play football. Everyone was trying to help me.
My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play in Europe, and then three more work in Europe, and another plays in Tunisia. This family is a footballing family, but our lives have not always been good.
My father and my mother were professional footballers and have also been coaches.
My mum worked in a grocery shop and played football, and my dad worked with cars, a sales director, and he played to almost a professional level. His dad played as well.
When someone becomes a part of the Azzurri squad that has won a World Cup, they are like family, and they never abandon anyone.
The Baggio brothers, of course, are not related.
I came from a long line of football players.
I always think we have to be cautious with our attitude to refereeing the professionals and the people in the football family.
I feel great at Real Sociedad. It is a second family for me.
