Football Quotes
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When I was younger, I had some close friends who always loved European football, and Real Madrid at that time were the dominant force. I remember family holidays when we used to go to Spain, and we'd bring back replica shirts of Real Madrid and pretend to be the players when we played in the park.
Gareth Bale
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When I was a kid in Woking, every week you went to the football dance, and every week the top kids would be wearing something different. You were constantly trying to catch up with them - which you could never do because, by the time you'd saved up enough to buy the item, they'd moved on to something else. That's the whole Mod thing, I suppose.
Paul Weller Incognito
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I was set to go to Oregon to play college baseball and football.
Harmon Killebrew
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There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.
Wayne Rooney
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I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.
Jerry Rice
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My father is a Marine. My brother is a Marine. I almost became a Marine. I'm no stranger to fight training. I used to do jujitsu and boxing as a kid. I was a running back in football for my high school and my college. I played ice hockey as well as did theater. So, there's always been a physical nature to me.
Zach McGowan
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I could dunk a volleyball in high school. I didn't play football because I knew they were going to put me at a fat-guy position, and I didn't want to do that. I am athletic.
Prince Fielder
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By the time I could have played football, I was already into acting and that's what I wanted to do.
David Morse
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Every club he's been to has had great injury crises. Every club. And it's always hamstrings.
Eamon Dunphy
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Football was my sport. I was fast. I was a free safety.
Paul Walker
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In the game of football, you need to be strong, and at my position, you need to be able to put up a good fight. So I work on my upper body and lower body strength because your body's got to be able to last.
LaMarr Woodley
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It took me a couple years to get over the stereotype I was letting myself get caught up on, being a football player trying to start a career in music.
Sam Hunt
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There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool, then obviously the Beatles, and the football club. That's what people in Liverpool are passionate about.
Ian Rush
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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.
Calvin Johnson
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I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.
Gary Neville
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If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete.
The Boz
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I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.
Danny Boyle
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I grew up with my cousins, who were as close as brothers, and frankly, I didn't like what girls were expected to do. I liked horseback riding, playing football, going to rodeos. I wanted to be in jeans all the time, and I couldn't figure out why I was supposed to conform to a certain standard, so I didn't.
S. E. Hinton
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As football players, our bodies know exactly what time of year it is and what we need to be doing.
LaDainian Tomlinson
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I was an athlete growing up. I was a wrestler, I played football, so I can take a fall. I actually wanted to be a stuntman when I was kid, so I would practice falling down the stairs. It's just something I like to do.
Chris Pratt
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I know I'm going to be remembered for football. That's why I work so hard at it.
J. J. Watt
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I wouldn't mind being like X-Men and having the claws. I mean, I don't think they'd let me play football, but it would look cool.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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'I was very different from most kids. I would stay home and write and put on shows when other people would go to the football game, and… I think I just put all that energy into wanting to get out of there and do something with my life.'
Chris Colfer
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It is hard to say no to PSG - as with all teams capable of winning the Champions League, There is always uncertainty in football.
Eden Hazard