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"Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football."
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"When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys."
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"Al Michaels is a good announcer. I think Keith Jackson is a terrific announcer. I always loved him on Monday Night Football. I never understood why they got rid of him."
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"I'm a racehorse fanatic rather than a football fanatic."
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"I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school."
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"No, I'm not a lager lout either. I think you have to be a massive football fan to be a lager lout."
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"But my biggest passion is football."
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"Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets."
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"There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer."
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"Football players win football games."
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"I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage."
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"The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important."
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"I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'."
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"It's not getting any better, is it? I don't want my 19-year-old boy going into the army. I love these little kids. They understand how passionate I am."
Love

"If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,' or showed some humanity."
Hope

"I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong."
Truth

"I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears."
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"I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain that feeling, and I wasn't prepared for it on Tuesday. But maybe you shouldn't retain these things or you'd be on a permanent high."
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"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of."
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"I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students."
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"I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls."
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