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But my biggest passion is football.

I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success.

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.

There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation, it is illustrated literature, filmed radio. These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.

Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.

I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.

My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have had a better situation. I mean, she was the - ran the concession stand at the Little League, and she was the first woman president of The Touchdown Club, the booster club for the high school football team. And so, I had a wonderful childhood.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans.

The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices.

I've felt a little tired, but I'm only 24. I love playing football. That's my job and that's what I love doing.

My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.

With United, we'd all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it togther.

There's room for boys' and girls' football in the world-that's what I believe.

I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football.

I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys.

When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys.

I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends.

I just wanted to get back to playing attacking football after my time in Italy. It was a little difficult at first but the atmosphere and the fans were just fantastic.

I don't want to lose myself in football and that's what a coach has to do to be successful.