Football Quotes
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In football, you have to look out for yourself and know when that ride is over. That extra inch after you've already got the first down - what's that going to get you? Not much.
Jimmy Graham
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When I started, there weren't any arenas. There was football fields, but they would only hold three or four or five hundred people at the most... We played a lot of high school auditoriums and things like that - a lot of churches... but boy, it has changed.
Jim Ed Brown
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Football is more important to me than money right now.
Aaron James "A. J." Hawk
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My first wife is a good woman, I still can't say nothing bad about her other than the fact that we had a difference on religion. She wanted someone who was a Muslim who shared those values. And I was like a heathen. I had to stay home on Sundays and watch the football game.
August Wilson
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There have always been card schools at football clubs and always will be.
Peter Shilton
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I like a lot of sports. Especially football - it's my favourite sport. My uncle played football in Barcelona for nine years and played for Spain in three World Cups.
Rafael Nadal
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In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.
Brett Favre
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When you get into these NFL rushers - the power, the speed, the bull rush, and all those kind of things - it's just different than college football.
Andrew Whitworth
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My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
Bo Jackson
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When you are happy and playing regular football, that can make life a lot easier.
Charlie Adam
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The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing match, it's usually pretty obvious. But in golf, sometimes it happens on Thursday. Usually it's Sunday, but guys who don't know the game, they can miss it.
Dan Jenkins
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Defensive players kind of have that two-faced kind of way of being able to be very aggressive on the football field and going out there and getting there job done. At the same time, from my own incidents and my own personality, I'm much a person that's very likable and lovable.
Ndamukong Suh
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Only two players made me cry when watching football, one was Diego Maradona and the other Ryan Giggs.
Alessandro Del Piero
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God made certain people to play football. He was one of them.
Joe Gibbs
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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.
Calvin Johnson
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Ultimately, if you look at the game and there are two minutes left, and you have to ensure your victory, you don't want to throw the damn football. You want a runner who can run the clock out.
Jim Brown
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I have been around football all of my life.
Ara Parseghian
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I never felt I would get to the stage where I would to have to actively think about retiring from international football as I always thought it would pass me by.
Kenny Cunningham
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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.
Ara Parseghian
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I've gotten to watch a lot of football games. Growing up, watching sports, watching people compete, whether it's my brothers or teammates. I grew up observing and taking it all in. It's kind of my attitude.
Eli Manning
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There's this myth that there's no loyalty in football. Well, there's tremendous loyalty and emotion and respect that go into the coaches and players you've gone into battle with. But as an owner, you have to make the decisions that are the right ones for the organization, that are the right ones that will help you win.
Jim Irsay
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Football sometimes is stressful. Music is more of a kind of laid-back type, chilled-out kind of activity. It kind of keeps me balanced, I guess.
Sam Hunt
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It's sometimes difficult living in France. People are more open minded in England, and of course I'm missing England in terms of football and the passion that the fans show, they're really passionate.
Emmanuel Petit
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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.
Mark Viduka