Football Quotes
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There were moments when I wondered at the gossamer veil that stops licence from being libel. I suspect that taking on the job of England manager puts you outside the protection of the courts. It must be part of the job description that you will be held hostage by media speculation and can have your character tortured, molested and finally executed at the public whim, in exchange for a lifetime's supply of money.
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When I was a kid, I never thought much about football. I thought about following in my family's footsteps and going into professional wrestling.
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My younger brother was a big Stoke fan, and I was sucked into it. I was kind of waking up every morning and looking at Gordon Banks' face! We had all these small football cards - literally hundreds of them - and swapping them was the currency back then.
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Football used to be my god but no longer is. I still love it, I'm still aggressive, I still want to be very successful at it, I want to win a lot of football games. And my job is to be the best football player in the world, because it affords me a life; it pays, it's my job, and so it hasn't dulled my senses for the game or the love or the great excitement I get from the game. It's just that I'm very much at peace with myself because of my faith.
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I'm focused on football; focused on my family right now.
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I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father.
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Football is a big deal at Miami. They play a tremendous schedule. If you're taking a look at somebody -- if he can play at Miami and be that kind of a guy and a leader there, then chances are he's going to be successful up here, too.
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I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.
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I don't understand people who spend their twenties hanging out in bars and going to football game. That stuff is so boring compared to really applying yourself to what you do.
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I need to go play football. I don't care about anything else.
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I like the idea of being a youngish parent. So I've got energy to play football even though they'll be better than me by the time they're four.
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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.
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I've been blessed in many ways, but none of the heights from football can ever compare to the depths you go through when you lose a child.
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I want to be remembered as the football player I was. The private person is nobody's business.
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I took all the courses you would need to be able to go to law school. But my experience in college with football made me want to go into coaching.
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As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.
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Dolphins football has been a lifetime passion for me.
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Individually, I am very happy because I can play in every game. I can be on the pitch and do what I like to do, which is play football.
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None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the football coaches do, or that our analysis should take precedence over the informed opinions of experts. I'm not saying that at all.
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If I'm somebody that says the team is important and the players and coaches need to sacrifice and I then see an opportunity to help the football team and don't do it -- I would be going against the basic principal of what I preach.
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You do get a chance to think about things when you're at home, but that is when you want to relax and forget about football for a bit. Honestly, you don't really get time to stop and think about things. We have a job to do. That is all we concentrate on, going game by game.
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It's true that I'm even better than I could have imagined, both in football and in my private life!
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Everyone in football knows what John Terry's like off the field.
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When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.
