Football Quotes
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I feel close to the rebelliousness and vigour of the youth here. Perhaps time will separate us, but nobody can deny that here, behind the windows of Manchester, there is an insane love of football, of celebration and of music.
Eric Cantona -
Walt Garrison is the ultimate cowboy. A rodeo cowboy growing up in Lewisville, Texas; an Oklahoma State Cowboy as a college football fullback in 1963-65; a Dallas Cowboy as an NFL fullback 1966-74; and still a cowboy at heart, in every way.
Walt Garrison
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But the reason that women's football is still unknown is because it's not on television and not widely publicised for a wide majority of the leagues in the world.
Marta Vieira da Silva -
My dad wanted me to play football so bad, he took me to Washington High School on the west side of Atlanta because they were number one. They never lost.
Young Thug -
I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.
Jesse Plemons -
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Vince Lombardi -
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Lou Holtz -
With United, we'd all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it togther.
David Beckham
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Boxing should not let - we should not let - the people in business of boxing should not let a person to just walk right in and get the grand prize of boxing. You can't do it in basketball, football, hockey.
Bernard Hopkins -
When you're in the National Football League, and you get this window where all eyes are on you, you can use that. You can use that platform for good.
J. J. Watt -
Football in Brazil is seen as a masculine sport, even with a lot of people accepting the female sport.
Marta Vieira da Silva -
Dementia pugilistica was discovered in 1928... And we still have boxing. Football will continue.
Chris Borland -
When I was really little, I was on a Pop Warner squad. I did it for a year. My dad was a Pop Warner football coach. I did it because my best friend was also on this cheer squad, and of course I looked up to my sister who was a cheerleader, so I wanted to cheer.
Ashley Tisdale -
I was going from Furman to the University of Georgia. I transferred to play football.
Omari Hardwick
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Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.
Iain Duncan Smith -
Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.
J. R. Moehringer -
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.
Yaya Toure -
I have cried twice in my life watching a football player; the first one was Maradona and the second was Ryan Giggs.
Alessandro Del Piero -
I am not thinking about life after football, but I know it will be another life, another world.
Francesco Totti -
Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.
Vicente del Bosque
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I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football – please.
Samuel Barber -
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 -
I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
Lou Holtz -
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.
Wayne Rooney