Football Quotes
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Growing up, I always thought of Detroit as a basketball town because of the Pistons, but everyone says it's really, at its core, a football town.
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In the end, for me, football is still a game. Even if you are a professional, you need to have fun when you are on the field. If you don't enjoy your job, you don't have fun.
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Before we can talk about a championship, we have to practice like a championship team.
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Life is great; football is better.
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People say I'm hard, I'm Mr Angry. I'm this, I'm that. I just want to win matches. There's no point going out there and being Mr Nice Guy. We get 55,000 at Old Trafford and I don't think they want fellas going out there and thinking: Ah, if we lose, so what?
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I won't name any names but I'll name just one, David Dein.
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Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I'm a bit bored. I ask, 'where is the intensity?'
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My wife doesn't like Football but she watches it just for Messi.
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That's where the challenge has been. Balancing football and life. Trying not to replay every play in my head while I'm with my family. Sometimes, I've done it well. Other times, I haven't.
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I try to take what's given to me and then mold it to be a better football player.
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Football is a game. It's something I love to do. But there are so many things in life that are more important.
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We are football players and we like to win games.
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The greatest thing for me football-wise is that it's a test of will.
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My four older brothers were my favorite players. That's why I got into football and sports.
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It's a strange atmosphere always over there, it is darker and less glamorous, and you don't feel as high. It is a different kind of test - can you raise your level in a less exciting environment and perhaps still a very difficult one?
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I played football; I was a running back, and I took a hit, and I had a hairline fracture in my leg which no one spotted, and I was playing basketball all winter and it got worse. And then I was long jumping, about 20 feet, and I landed one time and there was this big crack, and all the bones were jutting out of my leg.
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United have spent all season commemorating the 50th anniversary of Busby's decision to defy the Football League and take the club on a tragic and triumphant journey into Europe, but no orchestrated event could conjure the celebrations ignited by last night's outstanding obliteration of Roma or deliver a more fitting tribute.
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Professional football is the most violent thing your eyes have ever seen.
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But I am very confident that David Pleat, the director of football or whatever his title is now days - I am very confident that he, with all his media commitments around the world, knows the market place.
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I take pride in my life-my wife, my family. I try my best not to have football define the person that I am.
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Many people hold me ultimately responsible toward the actions and reputation of the global football community. I cannot monitor everyone all of the time.
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You ask me: 'Was he a fair player?' I say: 'No, I'm sorry, for me he was not a fair player.' I just think I respect him highly as a quality player. I did not like some things he did on the football pitch and I have the right to say that. It's not because you are older, suddenly, that you are a saint.
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Since I'm not focusing on my speed as much now as I was heading into the combine, I'm really focusing on my position work, trying to perfect how I play the safety position. I've been doing a lot of backpedaling and drills that focus on turning my hips, which help me out on the football field.
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I was so obsessed with football that you could say I was taking the goal home with me at night. And then one day the system fell apart.
