Iain Dowie Quotes
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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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Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.
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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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It's cool because football, as much as it gives, it takes away a lot, too.
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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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My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.
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When I talk football with my friends, I don't talk about Tom Brady's hair. I talk about how he handles the blitz, or how he runs his offense. I talk as a fan. I don't want pink jerseys, and I don't want dumbed-down content. I want to be treated as a real fan - because I am proud to be one.
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I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.
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As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.
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Pops played football for LSU. Ever since I can remember, I've been working with him running routes and stuff.
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As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot. When we were playing in the street, it was more touch football, so we didn't hit each other into cars.
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My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.
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People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought' - but you've got to have a little bit of a zip.
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Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes.
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I played in football games where you walk off the field and the scoreboard didn't end up the way you wanted. But you knew that you really did give it all. And the other team was too strong.
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If you are too nice, you will just get eaten alive. The football world is not always a nice place.
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Steven Adler and I played football in the street when we were 12. I remember rehearsing in my bedroom with my first band, and some kid climbed over the fence of my backyard and peeked his head in the window to see who was rocking. It was Slash.
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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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There are a lot of bad people in football, and players can be afraid to go to stadiums and get abused.
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I like working with different directors; it keeps you on your toes.
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Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.
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For us, compromise never means surrender, but a step forward and some rest. That is all and nothing else.
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It's now much more 50-50 in favour of Everton.
