When it's football time, that's where I am - the studying, the working, the practicing, everything.

I know the people expect the best - good. The people expect we'll play fantastic football and win games - good. I can't control that. I accept that, and I just focus on my players in the games.

The way I operate as a football player and the product that I put on the field in relation to the business that I conduct, I want it to be as tough as possible in practice so when I get into the games I've been there before.

I went to trials at Northants academy and got in. It was a crossroads between cricket and football.

I used to watch English football on TV when I was younger in Brazil. I already knew it was a dynamic, competitive and fast way of playing. When I got here, I just confirmed all of that.

Young Petr Cech was sports mad, football mad.

First I was still excited and elated about winning the Rhodes scholarship. That was an amazing feat. But then I put my iPod on and started listening to my pre-game music and started to switch my mind to football and was just hoping that the jet would land as quickly as possible so that I could get on the field and help my teammates win the game.

Mum tries to keep our mind on other things as well as football. But my dad's always football.

As an NFL player, and as a veteran in this game, no one cares what you're doing during the offseason. They only care about what you do on the football field.

I have many footballer friends including I M Vijayan.

If you are going to be successful in football you have to make sacrifices and that's something I am happy to do.

Racism has been in football since football started, it's never going away, it's never got better. It's just noticed more because everything is on TV, everything is magnified.

Buddhism allows me to feel well, tranquil, and very happy inside. This is good not only for football but for my life in general.

I think that most players enjoy playing football, but, like in everything, there are good moments and bad moments.

We don't realize how much the NFL is quietly drifting towards flag football. During the '80s, part of the defense's goal was to put the fear of God into offensive players... that's fading away.

Personally, I enjoyed school as much as the next kid. I was into art and every sport going from football to table tennis, so I kept busy. I never bunked a day off and left with 9 GCSEs, if I remember correctly.

I still speak with David Silva. We have a personal relationship, and we talk about personal things, but we've not got into football that much.

Good players can do well everywhere and Soldado is a good footballer.

This is what playing football is all about - trying to reach finals and trying to lift trophies.

I don't have to prove anything to anybody. Anyone who knows me in the football industry knows what I'm about.