I love football, football is my life.

I love football, I’ve never really taken an interest in anything else.

I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a ­manager would be my first choice.

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do

I love football and I love winning, and when things aren’t going right I get annoyed.

I love football. I really love football, As far as I’m concerned, it’s the second best thing in the world.

I love football in the rain. That is what it’s all about.

I love football. I think it is most wonderful game in world and I despise to lose.

I love football and beer and have a normal girlfriend.

I’ll explain it to you. To me it’s more than a game.” She touches her chest and says, “When you love something as much as I love football, you just feel it inside. Did you ever love doing something so bad that it consumed you?” “A long time ago.” “That’s what football is to me. It’s my passion, my life… my escape. When I play, I forget everything that sucks in my life. And when we win…” She looks down like she’s embarrassed to admit what she’s about to reveal. “I know this is going to sound stupid, but when we win I think miracles can happen.

I love to play bid whist as much as I love football.

I love football. The games are a pure rush. By the time I’m done playing, I want to be among the best tight ends ever to play the game.

I love football. Love it. Love it. I think it’s the last bastion of hope for toughness in America in men, in males.

I love football, but I’m sick of the World Cup. I don’t even care about England.

I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records – much too seriously, and I do feel a kind of anger when I hear a bad record, or when someone is lukewarm about a book that means a lot to me.

I love football. My weekends are booked. Saturday college games and Sunday NFL and ‘Monday Night Football.’ Booked! Football is first, then basketball and then everything else.

If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn’t the same as the one I was wearing, I’d run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.

I love football and it’s the sport I would really like to play. I’ve said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career.

Being a coach means giving your job 200% all the time and you’re family is left on the side so I don’t want to risk my family anymore just because I love football. I don’t feel this ambition, I’m involved in many businesses and I want to live my own life, to see my daughters grow and want to see my family happy.

I love football. I’ll watch the NFL before I watch any NBA.

I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records – much too seriously, and I do feel a kind of anger when I hear a bad record, or when someone is lukewarm about a book that means a lot to me. Perhaps it was these desperate, bitter men in the West Stand at Arsenal who taught me how to get angry in this way; and perhaps it is why I earn some of my living as a critic – maybe it’s those voices I can hear when I write. ‘You’re a WANKER, X.’ ‘The Booker Prize? THE BOOKER PRIZE? They should give that to me for having to read you.