Ball player Quote by Colin Allred

Going to that level, a lot of guys get to the NFL, and they don't make a long career out of it. The NFL…

— Baron Corbin

If you want to become a professional football player at any level, when you're growing up, you have to make sacrifices, and it's very…

— Chris Coleman

The beginning of a career is hard for many players, often because of the ordinary day-to-day problems that football and life bring.

— Cafu

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…

— Pete Carroll

It's hard to transition out of football. Even when you're super successful, guys who have played 18 or 20 years and have won four…

— Ryan Leaf

There will always be hard times. Use adversity to fuel your fire. In high school, I wanted to play quarterback but couldn't until I…

— Ben Roethlisberger

Like I've always said, there's a lot that goes into being a football player that isn't the playbook and being on the field, but…

— Devin McCourty

Football players have to grow up very fast. It's a tough life sometimes.

— Ryan Babel

The caliber of play in professional football compared to college is better and everybody knows it. They don't realize how much better. What a…

— Marv Levy

When you join the NFL, you start from scratch. As long as I've been playing - which has been since I was eight years…

— Reggie Bush

I think when you're not in the NFL or when you're early in your career, you don't understand how hard guys work, especially the…

— Adam Thielen

The bottom line is I'm a football player, and I played three years of college football, and I produced all three years. I also…

— Jason Pierre-Paul