Football Quotes
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I feel that World Cup cricket should be played like football in which all the 160 countries take part. If only a handful of countries are going to keep on playing in the World Cup without making the game popular, I will be a sad man.
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The first ninety minutes of a football match are the most important.
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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.
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I envied kids who played soccer and football, but that was not my gig.
Colson Whitehead -
In football, nothing lasts forever.
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Messi is the real deal when it comes to Number 10s. He represents a type of football that transcends borders.
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The score is high and very brutal but does not reflect what we saw on the pitch. The first shot on goal was a goal. The second was an own goal. The third was straight after half-time. They defend like mad and they catch us on the break.
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One of the things you learn in football is that you're only as good as your last outing. I don't like to reflect on what we've done in the past. I'm not a very good storyteller, for one thing. I'd disappoint you. When it's time, I'll talk about the good old days. But it's a sign of old age, reveling in the past.
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It wasn't really until the 10th or 11th grade when I started to play well, and football took the place of baseball, which was my love when I was five years old. I don't know what happened; baseball just got boring to me, I guess.
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Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.
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The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.
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Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity - the father thing. The eternal game of backyard catch, 'Field of Dreams', the Ripkens, the Griffeys, the Bondses, so on. But football is the real paternal game, because it's a conveyor belt of father figures, in the form of coaches.
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English football has just had a transfer window imposed for the first time, so it will be interesting to see how managers cope with the squads they have until it re-opens.
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I ran track for my school. I played football, but I didn't play for my high school; I played for a little league team.
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I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don't do anything at all. So I was a bit of loner, being interested in music.
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When people watch football, they're looking for fun things.
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I know I'm going to be remembered for football. That's why I work so hard at it.
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I played a lot of football, and I was a goalkeeper, but I didn't really like playing in goal.
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If I got a football scholarship, I was going to be a football player.
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No one knows anything about economics. It's the great lie of the economists. By contrast in football people might have contrasting opinions, each of which has some validity. But the economists always speak in conditionals - what a mess.
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Football is the last sacred ritual of our time.
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Whether people like it or not, you have to say the Old Firm are a major part of Scottish football. I know there is a lot of resentment from other clubs about that, but it's a fact.
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The life of a business is not like a football team! We are not taking part in an Italy-France game or against Germany.
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When I was a child, it was my dream to be a professional footballer. When I was 14 I visited Milan's San Siro stadium and remember thinking how unbelievable it was. From then onwards I vowed that one day I would be playing there - and I am very proud that I achieved this and also for everything else I have managed to achieve in football.
