I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.“On a football team, it’s not the strength of the individual players, but it is the strength of the unit and how they all function together.Football is unconditional love.I think Tom Brady is one of the greatest competitors of all time.That's the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl.I just happen to be blessed by God to be really good at kicking a funny-shaped ball between two yellow posts.It's football. You've got to play angry. If a guy is going to not throw his body at me and he looks like he's just going to sit there with his chest open, I'm going to put my helmet through his chest. That's his fault if he's sore in the morning.Football is a violent, competitive game. That's the way it was always meant to be played. You are supposed to play with an edge. You are actually supposed to impose your will on the other person to win.When you get hit in football, you got two options: You can stay down or you can get the F up. I know this group as fighters. I know this group will get up.There's no such thing as individual isolated success in football. You can see it in basketball, Lebron takes the ball off one rim, he dunks it on the other, he does it all by himself. You see it in baseball, Aaron Judge snaps that home all by himself. And golf, Tiger drops that putty, does it all by himself. In football, you don't do anything all by yourself. It's always about the man next to me.Some of my closest friends in life are guys that I was able to play high school football with.Football is about as popular as it can be in the U.S. The upside, the expansion and growth lies overseas.To me, a good running back is a good defense. A good running back helps you keep your defense off the field.Tackling is an attitude, you have to want to.Football players should always remember there's a whole lot more to life.My favorite football memory isn't beating Florida or winning the bowl game. My favorite memories are of playing football with my brothers and my dad in the front yard when I was younger.The most valuable player is the one who makes the most players valuable.In Texas, it's football. In Georgia, football. There's an appreciation from the average person about football more than anywhere else. And we have that for basketball in New York. And we'll always have that in New York.Football, at the end of the day, is a little kids' game that grown men get to play. I'm just privileged to get to do that every day.It's not just football. It's life.It's just the reality of football, you know. One team, one year - and then it's never the same after that.Football doesn't build character, it reveals character.Great football coaches have the vision to see, the faith to believe, the courage to do... and 25 great players.There's so many kids who only know me from the video game."Did Dennis just fall down?"
"Yeah. He doesn't like contact."
"He know he's playin' football?"I like big punts and I cannot lie.
Sometimes, you just have to take what the defense gives you.If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.Red wine pairs well with pretending to understand football.
Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest.You have to take care of the ball to win football games.The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.If you look at tailgating, everyone does it. It's for everyone who likes to cook outdoors.The game of football is something I dearly love, and there's nothing else I'd rather be doing.Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played the game.Monday Night Football. That was everything to me because you get a chance to show everybody what you're capable of. It's only two teams on that Monday night.The key thing with any football player is, what can he do when he gets on the field?Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.I can think of nothing more American than to peacefully stand up or take a knee for your rights - anytime, anywhere, anyplace.Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.I'm a firm believer that there's no way that a six-year-old should have a helmet on and learn a tackling drill.I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.Football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.You're not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That's not a place for me to joke around.Winners never quit and quitters never win.Football is unconditional love.I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game. 
