"I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field."
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"The thing I miss the most about Scotland is the football."
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"Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star."
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"People don't understand: I've always been busy. They think that, "Oh, he's too busy, blah blah blah...," but for me, this is how it's always been. I took 18 credits every semester of college, graduated in three years, took graduate school courses, played football and baseball my whole college career. I've never stopped, and that's where that phrase "No Time 2 Sleep" is always true. I get motivated by success, by winning, by being around great people."
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"As a young rookie NFL player, you go to the rookie symposium and the one thing they tell you is, "You guys know what the NFL stands for?" Everybody looks around like, "National Football League...?" The guy's like, "Nope - Not For Long." They tell you right there to get prepared for your second life. You take that in, and I've always been one to prepare early, to see ahead and anticipate and believe in great things happening, and they do. I'd already known that concept and appreciated that concept, but for me, I was always going to be here for a while. I just believed in that."
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"You never judge a person if they're going through their downs because you always stick with them when they're going through their ups. If you stay in football business long enough, you're going to have some bad games and you're going to have some bad seasons."
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"My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite."
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"If a footballer presents himself as a family man and goes and has sex with a prostitute, should he gag her?"
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"It will be a shame if either side lose, and that applies to both sides."
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"Any man who watches more than three consecutive football games on TV in one day can be declared legally dead."
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"I started out in a kid’s backyard playing touch football and I never abandoned the principle when I got to the pros: if they can’t touch you, they can’t tackle you."
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"There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting noise, ecstasy in the soccer stadium."
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"I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football."
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"I grew up watching my Dad, Uncles Ciaran Murray and Brendan Murray, and cousin, Aedin Murray, who were all national caliber Gaelic football players in Ireland. I try to watch as much Gaelic football as I can, it is my first love. I bleed Green, White, and Orange. Gaelic football players don’t get paid to play, you play to represent your county that is more important than earning money."
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"Once you become an owner of a team, you get so much more into the sport and you can't help it. So I really love NFL football now to the degree of following it much more than I did previously."
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"Assuming that women don't like football and that men aren't intersted in home decorating and cooking."
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"Brazil is crazy about football. People, they wait for this moment, but this doesn't mean we are going to win the championship. That is the problem."
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"The biggest family in the world is football, because football has more associate - and FIFA, for example - has more associates than UNESCO."
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"Once you're a football player, you're a football player for life. You always think of yourself in terms of that. We all do. It's hard to get rid of when you can't play anymore."
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"The open side Defensive End has to be one of your best football players. Size does not matter as much. We want an athletic player who can move around."
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