I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.

I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.

Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.

Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing.

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

I'm on the cover of the lingerie football swimsuit calendar this year.

With the club now in administration and concern about where the money for land sale has gone, I know there are huge commercial difficulties to be resolved, but I hope that football will once again become the most important issue.

I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.

There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but you've got to work hard to do it.

The real reason for coming to Montour is my love and respect for football.

When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.

People care about my personal life. But really I'm dorky! I drink beer and go to football games. And ya know, sit in my house in a t-shirt on the weekends and play with my dog!

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.