Morgan Freeman Quotes
I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.
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I'm a big soccer fan, so any soccer player that I meet, I always get star struck. I've met a lot of big stars - Justin Timberlake, Michael Buble - and I don't ever get starstruck, but when I met famous ex-football players, I just got completely starstruck.
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I had a sketch called 'Fedora Basketball,' which was about basketball players having to wear hats; in addition to scoring points, they have to make sure their fedoras don't fall off.
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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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I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn't have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.
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Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.
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I'm a little skeptical of foreign coaches in our league and in U.S. Soccer just because of how different our league is and our players are than other players around the world.
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A friend told me about a Nike competition, where they give you one minute to do tricks with a basketball. I wasn't going to go, but they were giving away free sneakers. I ended up coming in second place.
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When, you know, when you're playing basketball, you have to have confidence in your moves if they're gonna work.
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Basketball players aren't always the best dressers.
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Not every kid plays football, basketball. Running can be a source to vent and let things out.
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Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge.
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Like it or not, I've come to appreciate soccer. Any kid can play, which fits with the inclusive agenda of progressive schools. Although the corollary to 'any kid can play' is that every kid must play because there is an iron grip to the warm hug of progressive inclusionism.
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I was obsessed with learning about social behaviors. I remember explaining to my mom that kids on my soccer team were fighting because of dyads and triads.
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Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
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I played varsity on all of them for four years. I'm 5'9 and that's not that tall for a center so I was a forward. I loved playing volleyball and basketball and track I was good at, but it stressed me out.
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All three of my kids play soccer. Each one of them started from the time they were about 5 or 6, and we just love it.
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I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them, I guess it doesn't seem strange. And I guess that's their privilege. It isn't mine.
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I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.
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Before it was decided that I was going to be adopted, my mother was going to abort me. I was born with tangled legs; they never thought I'd be able to dance... without knowing it, as a child I overcame a lot thanks to really doting, loving parents and a great family and a hard work ethic on my part.
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Sometimes you need to speak up about what you're standing for.
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People read way too much into personalities and all that stuff.
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I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language.
