Football Quotes
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I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.
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I'm playing quarterback, I'm playing football, and I don't try to make it more than that.
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I told our players I couldn't be prouder of them. We fought extremely hard all year. I really appreciate them taking me with them.
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I like to read the papers. I make my living from football, and I like to know what's going on.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.
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Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football.
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William McKinley Oswald was my high school football coach. He was a great coach and had a profound influence on my life. But I think he could have learned his method of motivating players from an army drill sergeant.
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Wrestlers are a bunch of wanna-be football players.
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I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking football. But I also have things to give them.
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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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There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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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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Bavaro's probably as tough of a - physically and mentally as tough a football player as I've ever coached. So, I would put him in the rare category there.
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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Football brings you lots of lovely things, but then you have to realise that it's actually a job.
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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Football is a game.
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I love college football and I love pro football. This is how fair-weathered I am. I used to be a Giants fan, but my son who's turning 12 has really gotten into football, and he likes the Jets, so I totally jumped ships so we can root for the same team.
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I'm a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.
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In order to have a great rivalry, ... you've got to have two teams that are beating each other, and it's been one-sided. So I don't know. I can't speak for the rivalry part of it, but certainly we haven't been doing our part is the best way of putting it. And I think they're a much improved football team over last year from what I've seen on film. I think they've got a new system there on defense, and they're obviously very, very well-coached, and I have great respect there for Coach Parcells.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
