I wasn't that excited about football when I was young, but it did become my passion.
I eat football, I sleep football. I am not mad I am just passionate
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.
I'm addicted to football. When I get outside, I just want to stay on the training pitch.
When I was a kid I was the black sheep of the family because all my uncles and cousins were big Inter fans while I've always been Juve. In fact when I'm injured or suspended I'll be in the stands behind the goal when we're playing - in with the fans where I'm happiest.
I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the Quebec bush. I grew up in and out of the bush, in and out of Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto.
I've always been a football fanatic.
Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest.
I'm a Chelsea season-ticket holder, and I've supported them for 37 years, so any judgment of Manchester United by me is seen as biased.
It was really hard in Newcastle. It was one city, one club. Everybody there was really crazy about Newcastle.
I grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state.
When I was three or four, only football was in my head. I went 10 years, and nothing changed - only football, football, football. The strange thing is, nobody played football in my family before.
I enjoy a glass of wine, and I love my football. I suppose it's because I'm a real working-class.
But quite honestly I can't help being a passionate football supporter. If that's my sin, I'm guilty.
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 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!
Football was always big in my family.
If it wasn't for football, a lot of the best times of my life, my brother's life, my dad's life, wouldn't exist.
There's a love of San Diego that I will always cherish, but this is the East. It's football - these people love rooting for the Ravens, and this gives you extra motivation in life to go get what you want.
Football is an awesome sport, but it's also a violent sport, and that's why all of us love it. We know what we checked in for, and at seven years of age, that's what I wanted to do with my life, and I didn't care that I got hurt.
My first wife is a good woman, I still can't say nothing bad about her other than the fact that we had a difference on religion. She wanted someone who was a Muslim who shared those values. And I was like a heathen. I had to stay home on Sundays and watch the football game.
Some people don't understand that football is universal. It doesn't have a race or nationality. It's one group of people.
Our national identity is so interwoven with football.
My early ambitions were the same as they are now - to play for Manchester United. I was, and still am, football mad.
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.
