Football Quotes
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I wish I could go to the school where my close friends go, but I obviously can't. The good thing is, they're really good about inviting me to all the football games and all that stuff. So I end up having an adopted team spirit for a school I don't go to.
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All my life, I've been right next to a football field. I never knew nothing else.
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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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I'm proud of the fact that besides being known as a successful former football player, I've also worked hard to establish myself as a successful businessman, network broadcaster, sports & entertainment executive and philanthropist.
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The war in Afghanistan is too important to be reduced to a political football. We are fighting there to protect our national security. We are confronting the Taliban-led insurgency to prevent terrorists returning to that country.
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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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I played football in the ninth and 10th grade. I looked a lot like Joe Namath, so I think my looks got me there more than my abilities.
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Playing football and presenting TV are totally different things, but there are similarities: it's exciting, it can go well, it can go badly... the difference is when presenting goes badly, it doesn't really affect anyone's life, whereas when you have a bad day on the pitch, it affects people's moods for a whole week.
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A lot of the lessons that are taught in football will promote success in anything you get into after football; for me, it just happens to be music. Being disciplined. Good character. Trying to do the right thing, and working hard.
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Football is important, but my family and faith are also important, and no matter how good a football player I am, I knew I still needed to be a good member of the church. Having that spiritual connection helped me throughout the season. It brought balance. I felt better about myself and saw improvements in all aspects of my life.
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As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot.
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Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.
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I love going to football matches, the skate park, and music festivals.
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I had grown up during a time when Notre Dame football was held in the highest esteem. I listened to all of the games on the radio.
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I was a baseball guy. Mom wouldn't let me play football when I was little because she was scared I'd get hurt. So, I finally convinced her to let me play in 7th grade.
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My favorite football team is the Bears because my favorite player is on there, Devin Hester. I love the whole team, though. But that's just my favorite player.
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Today, violence against women is rightly abhorred. But we call violence against men entertainment. Think of football, boxing, wrestling... All are games used to sugarcoat violence against men, originally in need of sugarcoating so our team -or our society -could bribe its best protectors to sacrifice themselves.
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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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Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise.
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I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.
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It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.
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There is always going to be competition. When you play for a top club, you're going to attract top players. It's part and parcel of football.
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My dad always played sports. He played football. I always wanted to play football because my dad played football, but my mom never wanted me to play football because she said she couldn't take me getting hit.
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The saddest day of my life was the day I didn't get to play football anymore.
