Football Quotes
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I think the thing about that was I was always willing to work; I was not the fastest or biggest player but I was determined to be the best football player I could be on the football field and I think I was able to accomplish that through hard work.
Jerry Rice
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I grew up playing football and baseball and moved on to play college baseball, and, you know, as a kid, my dream was to play professional baseball.
Chris Lane
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People assume cheering in the NFL is mostly about a girl trying to snag herself a big, beefy, stinkin' rich football player. That is not the case.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
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I love basketball. I love football. And to me, I think that's a dimension that you don't see with a lot of female leads, especially. I have a genuine love for it, and I always thought it was very interesting to show that side of me.
Cristela Alonzo
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There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but you've got to work hard to do it.
Dean Cain
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When I get out on the field, it's all about football. I love football.
Austin Seferian-Jenkins
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The injury that ended my time in football turned out to be serendipitous. I tore my Achilles while training for a pending tryout with the New York Giants, and when it snapped, so did my career, basically. That's what led me to gain the confidence to get into the acting world on my own terms.
John David Washington
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At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.
Vince Lombardi
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I've been hitting up Hooters since 1983, and I can assure you nothin' says football season is here quite like watching the game on wall-to-wall flat screen TVs with the smell of Hooters world-famous chicken wings in the air and an ice-cold beer in your hand, served up with one-and-only Hooters hospitality, of course.
Jon Gruden
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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.
George Best
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You know sometimes football turns on the slightest biscuit of good fortune.
David Pleat
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As long as I own this football team and long after I'm gone, they will always be the Washington Redskins.
Jack Kent Cooke
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Football has always been a big part of my life. Almost from the day I was born, playing and coaching football were all I really ever wanted to do.
Bobby Bowden
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In the world of football and of sport in general there is still a taboo around homosexuality. Everyone ought to live freely with themselves, their desires and their sentiments. “We must all work for a sporting culture that respects the individual in every manifestation of his truth and freedom.
Cesare Prandelli
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We wanted Peyton to have a chance to win another Super Bowl. We have a chance to honor him like we did other players that came back. He's one of the greatest players. In the end. you look for a great football game, and that's what you hope for.
Jim Irsay
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In 1927, my father descended the heights and took his place as the newly appointed water boy for his beloved New York football Giants.
Jane Leavy
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Once you have a plan, you must sell it to the players. It is not enough to put it on the blackboard and say, 'Okay, here it is.' You have to convince the players that the plan is a good one and show them, in specific ways, why it will work. If you do, you send them out to the practice field with more confidence.
Joe Gibbs
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The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.
Lewis Grizzard
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There's too much - I don't know what the word is - scientology in the game.
David Pleat
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Football is a game you play with your mind.
Johan Cruyff
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I think as far as any kind of pressure on a football team or on an individual in professional sports really depends not only on that individual but the leadership they have on the team and the leadership they have on the coaching staff. A lot of times, they can divert some of those pressures off of the individual and off of the team.
Jimmy Johnson
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I was kind of torn between playing music or playing college football. I was going to college and really focusing on my music career.
Brantley Gilbert
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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.
Warren Farrell
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I do go to football sometimes but I don't know the offside rule or free-kicks - or side kicks - or whatever they're called.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls