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I feel close to the rebelliousness of the youth here. Perhaps time will seperate us, but nobody can deny that here, behind the windows of Manchester, there is an insane love of football, of celebration and of music.

I feel fortunate that there was a place like the CFL where I could hone my skill and become a consistent football player and have a nice career.

I feel an autumnal Saturday, no matter how beautiful, is wasted if it doesn't find me sitting in on a football game.

I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking. But I also have things to give them.

I feel I have grown up. I am a man. It's important in my football too. When everything is good, I don't think you grow up fantastically, I think maybe you need a few problems to grow up. It is good if people in England have started to admire me. I think I have changed a little since the World Cup. I am stronger with my mentality and with my game as well.

I feel like a new person. I learned how to deal with people when I wasn't a football player. I always wondered how they'd react to me, if they'd respect me. I found out I have other attributes that I like-and that others like. The injury made me a lot more mature. I have a better grasp of reality in life. I'm more patient and giving. I'm a lot closer to my family and more team oriented. I'm so much stronger emotionally. I have proven to myself that I can overcome the most dreaded injury in football. It's almost like dying and realizing life has been given back to me. I can't wait to play.

I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.

I feel like 'embattled' or 'disgraced' will always follow my name. It's like that black football player who recently came out.

I feel like it's God's plan for me to play football and make a difference in people's lives.

I feel like I'm a basketball player in a football uniform.

I feel like I'm the best, but you're not going to get me to say that.

I feel like I was drafted to play football, not carry another player's pads.

I feel that Im not losing the game for our team. Im trying to give us the best opportunity to win the football game. I did everything I could to lose the Jets game but we won. And the Patriots game, I didnt play well. I think that this year, I just come out and play smart football. I got some good advice the other day (from CBS Sports Dan Dierdorf): Every drive that ends in a kick is a good drive.

I feel the time is right, I want to spend more time with my young family and concentrate fully on my career [on retiring from international football at age 30

I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.

I felt a lump in my throat as the ball went in.

I felt like I played in a very rough football game with no hitting above the waist.

I felt sorry for the match ball - it came off the pitch crying.

If every university president said, 'The revenue producing sports: basketball, football - potentially revenue producing at most universities - maybe in a few cases women's basketball, if every one of them had a monitor that reported directly to the university president and no 'student-athlete' ever gets into this college or university who could not plausibly be admitted if we did not have a football or basketball team, end of problem. It won't happen because it's like unilaterally disarming. You know your opponent won't do it and then you'll get crushed in every game, but it's a simple thing.

If everyone's happy, then I'm the character where when I enter that means there's trouble. In a movie, when I enter, it's not a good thing. But I know where I'm at. But, you know, you don't have to call me by my character's name for months on end. Football taught me that, because you can go from being best friends to having to play that person on another team, you have to be able to turn that on and off. You need to find that middle ground.

If ever the Greeks needed a Trojan horse, it is now.

If football was a drug, I would have died from overdose.

If Glenn Hoddle had been any other nationality, he would have had 70 or 80 caps for England.

If football wasn't a part of my life, there were three things that could have happened, and they were all bad. I would have likely been selling drugs, in jail or dead.

If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

If God wanted football played in the spring, he would not have invented baseball.

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

If football had always been my main goal then I would have gone to some scholarship school; I could have gotten more exposure there.

If he'd been English or Swedish, he'd have walked the England job.

If he isn't named footballer of the year, football should be stopped and the men who picked any other player should be sent to Kremlin.  (on Tommy Smith)

If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.

If I believe that I became the best quarterback that I could possibly be, the best football player that I could possibly be... That's how I'm going to measure my career as a success or not.

If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.

If I am hated at Barcelona, it is their problem but not mine. Fear is not a word in my football dictionary.

If I can't get the captains to respond appropriately and show the leadership I expect, how is anyone else going to respond?

If I could start my life all over again, I would be a professional football player, and you damn well better believe I would be a Pittsburgh Steeler.

If I ever get the chance to do a football movie, that would be a dream come true.

If I ever wear a Chelsea shirt, you have permission to kill me.

If I have any talent, it's in the artistic end of football. The variation of movement of 11 players and the orchestration of that facet of football is beautiful to me.

If I had to put a percentage on it - I'd say not likely.

If I had stayed with football in college, I probably would have been a first-round pick.

If I may make a football analogy, we're a team whether we're a football team or community or the United States of America. We are part of a team and I believe the people on that team have a right, but they also have the obligation if there is something that is not good or we don't agree on, to speak about it.

I find American football quite ridiculous generally. I don't understand it. It looks like a lot of guys dressed up as spacemen shouting at each other.

I find the growing intervention by the football authorities in strictly footballing matters a rather worrying trend.

I find it terrible when talents are rejected based on computer stats. Based on the criteria at Ajax now I would have been rejected. When I was 15, I couldn't kick a ball 15 meters with my left and maybe 20 with my right. My qualities technique and vision, are not detectable by a computer.

I find it embarrassing when people compare me to Maradona. How can they? There is only one Maradona. People who say this just have no idea, they don't know what they are talking about. Diego was a complete one-off who will never have an equal on the football pitch. No-one, I repeat no-one, could have transformed teams like he did. Maradona was the world's greatest-ever player while I'm just an apprentice.

If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.

If it is the case that you need just a first 11 and three or four more players, then why did Christopher Columbus sail to India to discover America?

If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?

If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.