Call me a quarterback, not a running quarterback.
If people don't know what a punter is in football, they're not going to know what a fourth down kicker is, either.
When I watch professional football, I love listening to John Madden because I know he knows what he's talking about. He's been both down in the trenches and in front of the bench as a coach. He knows the game.
Communication is always important, but it's a separate type of language in football.
I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
We do a thing here at Arkansas that we teach Football IQ and call it 'Hogonese.' They are classes year-round where we get our guys better at the language and culture we want in our program.
I didn't play football in school, but I've been a fan of football all my life. I have a fair understanding of it. Doing movies about it really helps because you know what makes them work and what doesn't.
When it comes to understanding how to talk in English about football, I always watch 'Match of the Day.'
Extraordinary is a player who can score 60 goals. There are not a lot. Otherwise I think we would overuse the term.
I do go to football sometimes but I don't know the offside rule or free-kicks - or side kicks - or whatever they're called.
You have to learn the playbook inside and out. You have to learn code words for each play. You have to learn defenses.
A five-year-old Chinese girl knows more about football than I do.
I even scored Monaco's goal too. Please, put it down as an own goal for me!
Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
I'm a bit rusty when it comes to football.
Of course my first goal is to save the balls. This is obviously the most important thing as a goalkeeper.
I'm getting the basics with the AFL, but the NFL is a different animal.
Woodcock would have scored but his shot was too perfect.
Many people, many girls have tried to teach me the rules to football. And you would think that it would get in my head that way, but I just don't understand it.
In my country, they used to call players who play in my position a defensive midfielder, but it is not defensive.
Football is a pretty complex numbering system most of the time: run the three back through the four hole, things like that. We kind of do the same thing - the three man sets for the four, or whatever.
