Gerry Francis 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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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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I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.
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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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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.
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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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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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Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.
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I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.
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The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing match, it's usually pretty obvious. But in golf, sometimes it happens on Thursday. Usually it's Sunday, but guys who don't know the game, they can miss it.
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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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I always want to show them I can play football.
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It's one of the best leagues in Europe in football. Benfica in my opinion is one of the top 10 biggest clubs in the world.
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At some point, we're going to have to get to the point where, before you play football, I'm going to test you at some stage in your life to determine if you're susceptible to concussions. We need a test that shows us that your brain is situated a certain way that puts you at risk. If you are susceptible, don't play football.
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My father always told me I like the ball more than I like playing soccer: since I was a young kid, I was always skilled with it, dribbling furniture around the house. That's how I see football - fun and dynamic - and this goes beyond me; it's a characteristic of Brazilian football.
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Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.
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The way animals were and are abused appalls me to this very day.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.
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You have to be on the pitch to play football.
