Keith Jackson Quotes
Football is not a contact sport, it is said: it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
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Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined.
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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
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I think the important thing we have to remember about football in this country is that it is very vibrant, and it's very good to watch, not only in the flesh but also on TV, because our stadiums are full.
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There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.
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Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.
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I've lived most people's dream by playing football.
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During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders.
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In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.
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When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.
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I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.
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On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.
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Football has been everything to me since I was 10 years old.
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The game of football is something I dearly love, and there's nothing else I'd rather be doing.
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I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd walk around the projects on our hands and see who could get the farthest. I was always playing football with them, basketball or racing in the street.
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When you're throwing the football the way you want to, you're not thinking about it. You're not thinking about your drop or your release point or the trajectory or where your feet are. It's just coming off your hand exactly the way you want it to, fluid and confident.
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I still feel like I've got a lot of great football in front of me and the way that I've taken care of myself better the last few years. I think is going to put me in position to be able to play really well late in my 30s and even in my early 40s, possibly, if they'd like to keep me around that long and I can still play a little bit.
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A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.
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I grew up wrestling and playing football where, at the end of the game, you have a score and you're either the winner of loser. There's no score in acting, but you qualify your level of success by the people that you work with and the amount of exposure that you have.
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Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football.
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I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.
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They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.
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There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.
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For me, it was a lot of hard work doing theater eight nights a week around the country, going from job to job.
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Football is not a contact sport, it is said: it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
