Ball player Quote by Sam Hunt

My passion for music lay dormant during my football career and now I can explore it.

— Dion Dublin

There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer.

— Tom Wopat

Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.

— Dennis Bergkamp

I became stereotyped.

— Dick Dale

I was totally into football, totally into mainstream sports my whole life...The media has tried to categorize me, call me a hippie, call me…

— Gabe Jennings

I was on the football team because I wanted to experience the different iconic social classes of high school. So football for me was…

— Reggie Watts

When I was young, I originally wanted to be a radio on-air personality. Once I realized I may not be fit for that -…

— Karen Civil

I wanted to play football. It was what I did best at school and I'm pretty sporty, so that was the idea. Music was…

— Tinchy Stryder

I mean, it took me a long while to realize that I wasn't gonna play football on a regular basis anymore. I still play…

— Steve Harris

Trying to be really dark and alienating just felt exhausting to me, so I started going back to the music that I grew up…

— St. Lucia

I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.

— Vance Joy

I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of my music.…

— Liz Phair