Football Quotes
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I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.
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I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that's part of football. That's like a firefighter knowing he is going to go into a fire at some point. You know you are going to be put in danger's way, and you accept that risk, and you do it.
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The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.
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I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.
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I went to Brigham Young University on a football scholarship. I wasn't a football player; I was a place kicker.
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There's a love of San Diego that I will always cherish, but this is the East. It's football - these people love rooting for the Ravens, and this gives you extra motivation in life to go get what you want.
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My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.
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There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.
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Nobody wants to retire from football.
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I only like to play football.
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For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together.
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I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my whole adult life.
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Basketball players want contact to get a foul called. Slaps on the wrist and bumps on the shoulder are big time to them, and they don't like that. In football, you get that all the time. The whole mental makeup is different.
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I don't consider football fun. It's not like a water park or a baseball game.
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I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school.
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There is too much unhappiness in football, no?
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I still try to treat football as a game even if there are now other considerations at stake, especially economic ones.
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I know I can't go on forever – I'll probably stop when I reach 50 – but I love playing football. It's as simple as that.
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Football is now all about money. There are problems with the values within the game. This is sad because football is the most beautiful game. We can play it in the street. We can play it everywhere.
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Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.
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You cannot break a horse until they're about 2 years old. You can halter-break them, meaning teach them how to lead and stuff, if you choose to, but you can't really break them until they're 2 because there aren't developed enough, you know what I mean? It would be like a 5-year-old playing football or something, you know?
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A squirrel attacked me. I got attacked by a squirrel in Battersea Park. They're dangerous. It's rare. I've torn most of the ligaments in my knee. So no football for me. It's early retirement now. I've got a floating knee-cap!
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One thing about the Arena Football League, they know how to generate excitement. They have us opening the season at the same place where our season ended last year. It will be an electric atmosphere, and I, for one, can't wait.
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Sadly, they played very dirty. This ugly, vulgar, hard, hermetic, hardly eye-catching, hardly football style... If with this they got satisfaction, fine, but they lost.
