Football Quotes
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What I do is play football. What I do doesn't change who I am and who God sees me as.
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The only thing I want to be able to do is come in and learn the offense, go out there and compete, show what I am capable of doing and try to get better as a football player.
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All my life my priority was football, football, football. I was just fully focused on that and when my kids were born that focus changed gradually. I had something in my life that changed my perspective. You experience something that is more important than win, lose or draw.
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You have just got to face the facts, don't you? I face it head-on. I knew what I was coming in to. I didn't make the impact I hoped for and I believed in.
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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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I can live without football. There are more important things in life.
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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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Captaining the government of a nation is a bit more exacting than captain of a football team. I know for I've done both.
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In football, you always have the chance for revancha.
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Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.
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Every club he's been to has had great injury crises. Every club. And it's always hamstrings.
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Remember that a good football novel has to have the same ingredients as any other good novel: drama, convincing and interesting characters, a strong story-line, and some kind of magic in the writing.
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Their defense is tough. We know it's going to be stacked against us, but at least we have the opportunity and the chance.
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You couldn't take football away from me, you couldn't take acting away from me.
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Lets be honest: I'm an athlete, not an entertainer as much. So as an athlete, I am a guy who likes the physical confrontation of the football field. I like playing nose-guard; I like having two 350 pound guys trying to rip my head off.
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My son was a goalkeeper in soccer, and he luckily never had much head trauma. He never had any concussions or anything. I really wanted him to play football, but now I'm thankful he didn't.
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I played football ever since I was a little boy. Coming from a family of six boys, I guess we learned the game of football from a very young age.
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I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football.
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In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.
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My father loved Brazilian football, a diehard follower, so of course, he hated Germany and always rooted against them, always.
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The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this earth. It's not going be, "It was a great platform. It was great to win the Super Bowl." But, really and truly what you're going to leave this earth is the influence on others.
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If I can't outplay you in football, I'm gonna fight ya.
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I went off to Harvard Law School for six weeks, and then I said, 'Doggone this, it's not what I want to do.' I remember when I told my dad I was leaving law school, and I wanted to go into football. He said, 'Be a good coach.'
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I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.
