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		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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		I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ian Botham
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		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
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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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
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I don’t have to play football for money.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Carson Palmer
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		For me, trying the NFL and trying this football thing, because of the home and what I went through in there, to me, it was no big deal. It was just another opportunity for me. I didn't see that bigger, grandiose picture of it, I just took it one day at a time, like how I took it in the group home.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jimmy Graham
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I never thought I would be the oldest quarterback in the National Football League at one point, not in a million years. I never thought I would play as long as I did, either, seventeen years from start to finish, with stops in Houston, Minnesota, Seattle, and Kansas City.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Warren Moon
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Grade 9: I was too small for football, too shy for drama class, but I did have a passion for music. And so, with a mouth full of braces (and a glorious mullet), I accepted that the trombone would be a fantastic scholastic counterpart to my extracurricular loves: country music, and the guitar.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jason McCoy
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Vicente del Bosque
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		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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		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
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gabriel Byrne