Wherever I go, I see kids playing football. Even if there is no grass and it's just sweaters for goals, you see how people love football.
When I am not playing or training, I watch football all the time.
Brazil goes into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country.
I'm addicted to football. When I get outside, I just want to stay on the training pitch.
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?'
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 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 grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state.
Nothing jazzes me up like football. I've acquired more passion of the years, not less. Not to love it wouldn't make sense.
These guys live and breathe football; they get something out of going to the training ground every day.
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.
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.
I know how much football means in England. They love it. That's why it's great to be here.
Watching all the football over the weekend - and having to wait until Monday night to play - gets you ready, gets you firing.
I'm going to keep loving football. That's one thing I'm most proud of: my hunger and desire for the game has not stopped.
The NFL has captured the casual fan.
I revere football. I love the game. You don't have to wonder if I will miss it. I will absolutely miss it.
Both my brothers played football. My mother had season tickets as a school board member. I was in the band, my sister was in the band. The thing was, the unifying civic activity was obsession over high school football.
If you were ever to interview me after a football game or at a football game or around me during football season is totally different than when you catch me away from football.
It's true that the atmosphere here is quite different from the one in France. People live and breathe football here, and that's what I like. Every footballer wants to play in the Premier League.
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.
For someone like me, who loves this sport, Naples is a wonderful place. This is an incredible city where football comes first, followed by everything else. The fans live for football.
Football in Italy is like a wonderful sickness, because people are infected with this love for the sport from childhood to old age.
You get injuries, but football is something you have in your blood, in your heart.
