"Maths is totally done differently to what I was teached when I was at school."

"My work ethic is something that I thought would help the team."

"It's is always nice to be respected as a footballer. I am going to go out and enjoy the game and if I can set one or two goals up then so be it - I would love to."

"Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had."

"Some men over-tweeze their eyebrows, and it's just too perfect. Men are meant to have kind of a bushy brow. Too much aftershave is also off-putting; it's one of my pet hates."

"Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught."

"I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out."

"I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games."

"My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field."

"Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that."

"We had a great first drive. We looked like a good football team, but we've got to do that with consistency. We just have to take advantage of field position when we get it."

"We had a great first drive. We looked like a good football team. But we've got to do that with consistency."

"Football is football. When guys don't do things that are intentional to hurt somebody, which neither one of those things were, I think it's a little ridiculous. And it happens every week. It's not fair to the players."

I have to be myself.

“A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.”

“Some people try to find things in this game that don’t exist but football is only two things – blocking and tackling.”

“When you’ve got the momentum in a football game, that is a time to keep going and get it into the end zone. We want to score for America’s families.”

“Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization…”

“At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.”

“I’ve been in football all my life, gentlemen, and I don’t know whether I’m particularly qualified to be a part of anything else, except I consider it a great game, a game of many assets, by the way, and I think a symbol of what this country’s best attributes are: courage and stamina and a coordinated efficiency or teamwork.”

“You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn’t mean a thing. That’s for the fans. You’ve got to win the war with the man in front of you. You’ve got to get your man.”

“After all the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written, and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and after all the pomp and fanfare have faded, the enduring thing that is left is the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.”

“Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.”

“People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.”