Per Mertesacker Quotes

I enjoyed being involved in team sports and making close friendships.

I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school.

Since I was a D-team backup quarterback in seventh grade, I've loved the game.

Ever since I started playing football, just trying to make a play.

I think almost every player has a few very good friends on tour. Mine are: Yves Allegro, Roger Federer, Michael Lammer, and Ivo Klec.

To succeed in hockey, you need teamwork.

I played softball. I was on an all-star team. I traveled with the team. I loved it.

During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first practice, upper classmen pointed out I was tall, so I should try playing QB. Well half an hour later, it was abundantly clear that I should not be the QB.

I lust love to play football.

I love sports, and when I was playing soccer, I was always trying to be the leader on the team and the one who takes control.

One of the things about football is, it's a relationship business.

Football's been such a part of my life. It's allowed me to meet so many people and do so many things.

I think the main thing about football is confidence.

I don't if I can handle not being on the sideline and being part of a team trying to win a football game on Friday nights.

I've been through nine camps, and they're all a little bit different, but at the end of the day, it's just football.

My job is to go out there and play football. My job is to go out there and win football games.

I think football is a team sport.

I had never played a team sport when I was younger.

I just love football. I've always enjoyed doing it - being outside with my mates, getting really muddy and dirty and smelly. It's something I always loved.

Football is played by 11 players, and unfortunately, every time, it happens that some do well, and some do worse.

I try to enjoy playing football and do my best for the team.

I've been playing this position since I was about 9 years old. For me, it's just, 'Come out here and be the best quarterback I can be.'

I just know that I love football, and when I'm on the pitch, I want to win.

Growing up, I played football and was always one of the best on the team.

It's the same thing I have been doing since I was 5, playing the game of football. Going out there when my number is called and trying to make plays.