Football Quotes
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Football is a way of life down there.
Bobby Petrino
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We played a lot of sandlot ball, so we were used to tackling each other, or falling on the concrete, things of that nature. And nine times out of 10, our flag games turned into tackle anyway. So when I got to high school, tackle football was kind of natural.
Nick Ferguson
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The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.
Arsene Wenger
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I won't name any names but I'll name just one, David Dein.
Niall Quinn
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For me football is more about making the right pass at the right time.
Michel Platini
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If I was still at Ipswich, I wouldn't be where I am today.
Dalian Atkinson
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Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.
Hillary Clinton
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Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.
George Will
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Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I'm a bit bored. I ask, 'where is the intensity?'
Arsene Wenger
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I like to watch good football so I like to watch good players. I like Cristiano Ronaldo, Andres Iniesta, Xavi and Wayne Rooney.
Neymar
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In football you can make it if you've got the 'I'm-going-to-get-up-off-the-ground-and-kick-your-ass' attitude.
Burt Reynolds
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As far as I'm concerned, this guy should never play football again. The answer you normally get after a tackle like that is 'he is not the type of guy who does that.' It's like a guy who kills one time in his life - it's enough. You have a dead person. This tackle is absolutely horrendous.
Arsene Wenger
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Beckham in Paris will certainly be good for shopping. I love this player but he is not the footballer he was. And if he comes to Paris now it will be to do something other than football.
Michel Platini
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Football doesn’t define me. It’s what I do and how I carry out my faith.
Troy Polamalu
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If you can run the football, your opportunity to win increases big time, no matter who you're playing, and we're going to always try to, ... With the potential that we have in our backfield, everything should set up off of that.
Bob Stoops
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Football is pretty much played 16 times a year, where training is kind of a year-round thing.
Troy Polamalu
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Thierry Henry could take the ball in the middle of the park and score a goal that no one else in the world could score.
Arsene Wenger
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I am a football fan, yeah.
Joe Namath
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Erma Bombeck
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I have no idea why Mark would have done that. I was as shocked as anybody in the stadium. How do you explain that? I don't know. That goes back to Pop Warner football. Mark should have made a better decision. I'm not going to sit here and go any further in front of the whole media, but it's as bad a play as there is.
Bob Stoops
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Never played football, but I'm an athlete. I'm a competitor.
Michael B. Jordan
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I am supposed to take the bullets and absorb them. Like a bear, a polar bear.
Arsene Wenger
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Sometimes I do feel a little pressure, but not that much because we play different positions.
Willie Lanier
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If a footballer presents himself as a family man and goes and has sex with a prostitute, should he gag her?
Nicky Campbell