People who know there is a god and people who know there isn't live in exactly the same world. Same number of hours in the day, same weather, same football results. They both love their children and die of the same diseases.
A. A. Gill
The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.
A. Philip Randolph
I'm probably more obsessed with football that I am with music.
Aaron Dessner
I fell like I'm a well-rounded football player.
Aaron Donald
My main focus is playing football and giving it all I got. I'm trying to go out there and make plays and help my team win.
I'm a football player, you know? My film talks for me.
All I can do is do my part and keep trying to open up eyes with what I did on the football field, what I did in my career. Just go out there and try to compete and shock a couple more people.
I'm just going to go play football - fly around and make some plays. That's all that matters.
When I'm retired someday, when I'm done playing football, that's when I'll be relaxing and look back at some things.
I'm just a football player.
I love football, but being away from it is tough.
It's the same thing I have been doing since I was 5, playing the game of football. Going out there when my number is called and trying to make plays.
All I can do is play football, put it on film.
I feel like I've got a lot of football things I need to work on to have that success that I want to have in this league.
There are a lot of good football players in the league. You just try to keep yourself grounded.
I grew up playing hockey and some football, and I always think about the first time you walk into the locker room on a new team. The cliques are looking at you funny, and you make one friend, but then they're trying to stab you in the back.
Aaron Douglas
I talked to a few schools about playing football, but I had already pretty much made my mind up. I fell in love with baseball at a young age, and I knew that that's what I wanted to do.
Aaron Judge
In baseball, you have to remain calm, cool, and collected. In football, you can let out a little anger sometimes. It was a fun game, and I liked it, but I knew in my heart I was going to play baseball.
I had a lot of fun playing football and basketball, but deep down, the chess match or cat-and-mouse game between the pitcher and batter in baseball really drew me in. It's a thinking man's game, and for me, nothing can compare to that.
My dad told me, 'If you're going to go out there and play baseball, or you're going to play basketball or football, work hard at it no matter what. I want you to have fun with your buddies, but you have to put in the time because this is your craft.' He didn't just want me to be good. He pushed me to that next level.
We used to play football on the levee, with no shirts on in the summer - August in New Orleans - and my skin would turn red. They'd call me Redskin, Red Apache, then it turned around to Apache Red.
I came from a rugby school and rugby nation, but I fancied giving football a go, and luckily, it paid off.
I know what I'm capable of doing. I just want to stay fit and healthy and let my football take care of itself.
All I want to do is play football.
All I have ever wanted to do is be a professional footballer.
Ever since I was a boy, I have wanted to be a professional footballer and to captain my country one day.
It's unbelievable what the rewards are like with being a footballer, but I'm not stupid - I don't go around flaunting it.
When Bale first started at Tottenham, they were struggling to win whenever he played at left-back, but it is unbelievable how quickly things can change in football.
We're professional footballers, so we have to go out there and perform as best we can and try and get the results that we want.
Nothing's in my head when I'm out there; I'm just trying to have fun on the football pitch.
I'm happy to be in the centre for Wales - that's my favourite position and where I play my best football.
I'm not one of those people who goes home and has to put football on the TV straight away or has to watch Sky Sports News.
It's important to take your mind off football; otherwise, you become too obsessed, and you look into things too much.
When I was in school with my friends and stuff, you always used to put yourself in the situation of footballers of the time and pretend to be them.
I live for football, and my real passion is just to go out there and express myself and show everybody what I'm capable of doing. It's what I've always known since I was a kid.
I was playing first-team football at Cardiff at 16.
I think some people forget sometimes I do have to go to the grocery store; I do enjoy going out to dinner. I have to get my oil changed from time to time. I do all the normal things. I cut my grass. People kind of forget that normal part, that we do a lot of the stuff that everybody else does, but we all have our talents, and mine is in football.
I still feel like I've got a lot of great football in front of me and the way that I've taken care of myself better the last few years. I think is going to put me in position to be able to play really well late in my 30s and even in my early 40s, possibly, if they'd like to keep me around that long and I can still play a little bit.
There should be a minimum on the air pressure but not a maximum. Every game, they're taking air out of the footballs I'm throwing, and I think that's a disadvantage for the way that I like them prepped.
I don't think God cares a whole lot about the outcome. He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.
The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
When you're throwing the football the way you want to, you're not thinking about it. You're not thinking about your drop or your release point or the trajectory or where your feet are. It's just coming off your hand exactly the way you want it to, fluid and confident.
I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it.
Originally, I wanted a pop career and formed a girl-band 'Genie Queen' managed by Andy McClusky from 'Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark', but it didn't work out. My brother John is the talented singer and song-writer with 'The Razz,' while my other brother Sean is a footballer for Telford United.
I've got no interest in football. My brother's a footballer, too, and I was dragged to the freezing pitch every week as a child. I don't see much glamour in it.
Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.
Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
I hope we can get to a point where women players are being paid properly all around the world so the only thing they have to worry about is playing football and playing football alone.
People don't understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface - all of that goes into how the game is actually played.
When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.
