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I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.

I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it.

I did come up with the term "sack" to describe the devastation I was bringing on the poor, cringing quarterbacks in the NFL. "Sack the quarterback." That was nice. I thought it was lots better than saying, "Jones tackles the QB behind the line for another loss of yardage ..." It had a ring to it, and it caught on with the sports writers. But I tell you, doing it was a lot more fun than talking about it.

I did not come into football to make money. I had already made millions.

I did not threaten anybody in any moment and even less with a brick.

I didn't always walk that straight line. I'm not going to say that I'm an angel. But I made some right decisions along the way.

I didn't do anything during the game. I only had one shot on goal and I did not create any chances. I was horrible. Maybe I should have left the pitch earlier.

I didn't even grow up with football. I learned the rules of football on this show [The League].

I didn't know anything about it, I swear. Nor did Dave Bassett. We were sitting there saying 'What's happening here?'. It is frightening. A nightmare.

I didn't realise you could travel so far and still be in England.

I didn't play in the NFL, and I didn't play defensive line. But football, at the fundamental level, is football. It's about motivating people and getting the best out of them.

I didn't quit football because I failed a drug test, I failed a test because I was ready to quite football.

I didn't know what to expect coming into this year. There were a lot of question marks, and I think that's obvious now. Can we overcome it? Time will tell.

I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling - that was my real love.

I did play two years of high school football and was very short and uncoordinated but the second year I was very tall and skinny and very uncoordinated.

I didn't win prom king. By that point, I'd quit sports except for soccer, so I was really just a theater guy. I totally lost to the captain of the football team.

I did try out for football and wrestling but they wouldn't let me on the teams because I had blue hair.

I did takwondo from the time I was pretty young and also played I did taekwondo for martial arts and then also played football, baseball, and basketball against older kids because of my brother being older. I learned pretty quickly to not be intimidated and to not back down.

I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.

I'd like to have seen Tony Morley left on as a down-and-out winger.

I'd love to be in the Hall of Fame one day and win Super Bowl rings, or even one - and stay healthy.

I'd never allow myself to let myself call myself a coward.

I'd love to play basketball with the president, or throw the football around or something like that.

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.

I do enjoy playing some sports, even though none of them are organized. I enjoy football most of all.

I do like to try and see myself in football players. Everybody is different and express themselves in different ways. There are different kinds of talents of course and there are many who I would never have had the talent that they have when I was a player. But I still had that determination to be successful and try my best.

I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions and collide. Besides, I have contempt for a game in which players have to wear so much equipment. Men play basketball in their underwear, which seems just right to me.

I do not feel that I have a mandate from the entire world of football - the fans, the players, the clubs, the people who live, breathe and love football.

I do not play football, I score goals.

I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.

I don't blame individuals, I blame myself.

I don't believe that you can be too short as a quarterback. It's not about height.

I don't care about three years ago - I don't care about two years ago. I don't care about last year. The only thing I care about is this week.

I don't care if it's politics, religion or football. I believe you have to keep opening your mind. And shut your mouth sometimes!

I don't do too much outside of football during football season, because this is my job and I take it seriously. I don't do too much, don't really go out at all that much, don't eat out or anything, try to stay focused and stay to myself.

I don't ever get the great looking lawyer roles because I've got a thick neck from playing football.

I don't do football. (Grew up in Leeds in the 1970s. Football there was indellibly associated with the National Front, i.e. violent fascist skinheads.)

I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.

I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.

I don't feel like I'm getting older. I think it's the way I've looked after myself. I take my football seriously. I love scoring goals and I get a good feeling from it, so I'll do whatever it takes to be fit and feel good in games.

I don't follow football, I just love the name Aston Villa. Here in England you have other footballing entities like Manchester and Arsenal and Chelsea

I don't get it: they re-package the same shitty football games every year, update a few stats, call it a new game and millions of suckers keep buying them. What's the point? Why not just go outside and play real football instead? Or even better yet, get bent. Nobody likes football.

I don't get what's happening to Jose Mourinho of late. He's lapsing into the kind of Portuguese moroseness you get from staring at the Atlantic horizon and imagining you're the last place in the world, while listening to endless renditions of the fado. His latest line about 'everyone hates us and we don't care' sounds like vintage Joe Kinnear in the great days of the Wimbledon Crazy Gang.

I don't give players a chance to hit me.

I don't know about voodoo, but I believe in destiny.

I don't have the proudest moment in football.

I don't know how we could use it to improve the job that umpires do, ... The human element in sport has always been a big part of the game. I'm a football fan, too, and I hate instant replay in the NFL. Football games are taking four hours.

I don't know if that result's enough to life Birmingham off the bottom of the table, although it'll certainly take them above Sunderland

I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond.

I don't know why we aren't scoring as we're keeping clean sheets.