Ernest Crawley Quotes

The tactical difference between Association Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former the ball is the missile, in the latter men are the missiles.

Ernest Crawley

• Football
• Association
• Rugby
• Missiles

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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.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Play
  • Football
  • Times

• 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.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Up
  • Time
  • Football

• I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

  

  R. C. Sproul
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  • Football

• My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Football
  • Never
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• Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Live
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• You don't have to be the biggest, tallest, strongest guy to do whatever you want to do. You can do anything. There's tall doctors, short doctors. It doesn't matter. You don't have to be the tallest guy to play the sport of basketball, football or whatever you want to play.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Guy
  • Football
  • Basketball

• The game of football is something I dearly love, and there's nothing else I'd rather be doing.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Love
  • Game
  • Football

• I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Football
  • Player
  • Football Player

• There are two types of football - there's physical football and football talent.

  

  Xavi
  • Football
  • Talent
  • Two

• Football brings you lots of lovely things, but then you have to realise that it's actually a job.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Job
  • Football
  • Lovely

• I'm proud of the fact that besides being known as a successful former football player, I've also worked hard to establish myself as a successful businessman, network broadcaster, sports & entertainment executive and philanthropist.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Proud
  • Myself
  • Football

• A lot of the lessons that are taught in football will promote success in anything you get into after football; for me, it just happens to be music. Being disciplined. Good character. Trying to do the right thing, and working hard.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Good
  • Music
  • Trying

• I said, 'If I don't play football for a living, I'm going to get into show business.'

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • Business
  • Football

• Football is open; it is not only keeping possession of the ball and making more passes.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Football

• I do play football no-holds-barred. Any edge I can get, I'll take. I'd grab a face mask only in a fit of anger. Uncontrolled anger is damn near insane.

  

  Joe Greene
  • Football

• Obviously, football and soccer seem to clash a lot, but soccer was great for me. It's a game that you play with triangles. You make a pass thinking that the person you pass the ball to is going to make the next pass.

  

  Chris Borland
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Game

• I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, 'Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.'

  

  Pele
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• Football is not about suffering. It's about enjoyment. Control the ball, be friendly with it, try to attack, try to score goals. Of course defending is part of it, but you can defend in a lot of ways.

  

  Johan Cruyff
  • Control
  • Football
  • Suffering

• We're telling the story of 'Daredevil'. In this aspect, the storylines accentuate the sociopathic tendencies in her. The writers wanted to highlight that Elektra is quite manipulative and doesn't seem to have a conscience.

  

  Elodie Yung

• He glared at her. Women can get a man to do anything, he realized. Mother, wife, even employee; they twist us like hot little bits of thermoplastic.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Women
  • Mother
  • Wife

• Tests that sugar-coat the truth only set up our kids to fail in worse ways down the road.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Truth

• The tactical difference between Association Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former the ball is the missile, in the latter men are the missiles.

  

  Ernest Crawley
  • Football
  • Association
  • Rugby