Jocks Quotes

"I`ve always been kind of a loner. Continue to be. So, in that sense, Ryan and I are the same. I played football in Texas, but I didn`t really hang out with the jocks. I did honors courses, but I didn`t hang out with those kids, either. I sort of had my own group I hung with occasionally, but I`ve always been kind of by myself." - When asked about his high school experience.

I`ve always been kind of a loner. Continue to be. So, in that sense, Ryan and I are the same. I played football in Texas, but I didn`t really hang out with the jocks. I did honors courses, but I didn`t hang out with those kids, either. I sort of had my own group I hung with occasionally, but I`ve always been kind of by myself.

I was a bit of a freak, but because I had a few older brothers I was afforded protection and people just kind of let me join their gangs. I was a kind of Zelig figure, moving between different groups. I`d hang with the jocks, the burn-outs, the academic types and I could empathise with all of them. I was curious about all of them, but I know I never felt I fitted in with them, you know? It sounds odd saying it now, but I just wasn`t right there - until I started doing plays and then it was, like: "Ah, my people."

I`m a big rock star, I got a beautiful girl, and they still call me a fag. Its` like high school never ends - the jocks are always on top.

I was going to the beach with my girlfriend`s family. They`re all really big into soccer and her brother was this soccer superstar. And I`m hanging out at the beach with all these jocks and then there`s me. I know nothing about sports. I don`t even know what a sport is. I have to confess that I`m a little afraid of birds. I am...whatever. So we`re sitting on the beach and this bird flies toward me and all I could say was `Pleaaaase!` Like `Please don`t hurt me,` `Please don`t fly in my direction?` I don`t know. And everyone cracked up and was doing impressions of it the whole rest of the day.

Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn`t dare play this kind of music. They would never play a record where only two minutes of the song was all it was worth. They wouldn`t buy those types of records.

We want to be different. We want to be strange and we don`t want jocks or other people putting (us) down. ... We`re going to punish you.

(But what`s not clear is whether all these players posturing for money is good for the image of the NFL or the quality of its product. The league has always benefited from the perception that the players` paychecks really do hinge on performance, and that a failure to produce could lead directly to unemployment. As players (and agents) get more strident in voicing their salary gripes, fans may begin to view them as no different than the me-first jocks in other sports. Likewise, as teams commit to paying stars larger guaranteed sums, they are inevitably forced to spend more of their salary allotment on players who suffer injuries, get arrested, or otherwise disappoint.) There is a lot more dead money now, ... You`re basically married to a player for at least two or three years.