Football Quotes
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I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.
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To recognize that head injuries were as essential a part of football as they are of boxing would be to erase the fine distinction on which the game's respectability rested.
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In football, nothing lasts forever.
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The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point.
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I was a late developer and, at the age of 15, I almost thought of quitting football.
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It's my whole life of being the little guy and having a little chip on my shoulder, from year to year trying to prove myself, and at the end of the day to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame is a very special honor for me.
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I wanted to go to college and play football.
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My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
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Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.
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My favorite book is 'Million-Dollar Throw.' It's about football, which is one of the main things I like watching and reading about.
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On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.
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If you can play football, you can play football. Measurables at the combine don't change that.
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All this cuddling and kissing on stage these days, well it's all right in football when someone scores a goal, but not when you're playing darts.
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I hope to get out before they start football next year.
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If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
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I can't predict the future of football. I don't think it'll go the way of boxing because it's a team sport. It's built into our education systems, the flagship for a lot of universities' fundraising campaigns. So no, I don't think it'll go away.
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Football, played at its highest level, is catastrophic. Even relatively minor afflictions are grotesque and bookworthy.
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Abe Krok was a man of integrity who made a unique contribution to Mamelodi Sundowns and to South African football.
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That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.
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Football has been everything to me since I was 10 years old.
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I have come to know well that fates are fickle in the business of English football. And I feel that I have pushed mine well past the limit.
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Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.
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I realised I'd been spoiled at Liverpool. We were used to winning. In Italy I grew up as a person. I didn't enjoy the football, mind. It was very defensive, but I became a better player because of the work I had to do around the box. Off the pitch, I learned about what to eat and what to drink to be successful, and I learned about life.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
