Football Quotes
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I'd like to run a professional football team. I'd love to run the USTA, be the sports editor of the 'New York Times.'
Jeff Zucker
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That was the most congenial conversation I think I've ever had with anybody. What I was saying to him there was, 'I think you can help the football team' - that's when my finger came out. I said, 'Look, you can help this football team. You can rush the punter.' But I was also telling him, 'Now, this is what you need to do in order to do that.
Joe Gibbs
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Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder.
F. E. Smith
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Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them.
Larry Fitzgerald
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The socialism I believe in is everyone working for each other, everyone having a share of the rewards. It's the way I see football, the way I see life.
Bill Shankly
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Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.
Bill Shankly
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I've played under some of the biggest and best managers and achieved almost everything in football. Of course it hurts when people question it, but I've come to the end of my career and can look back and say I've achieved everything with every club that I've played for.
David Beckham
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I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.
Taylor Phinney
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When you are young, nothing is more important than football, but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.
Jermain Defoe
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Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.
Jim Sensenbrenner
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Actually, I'm for football. But I'm for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are.
Bennet Omalu
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I love football movies.
Kim Dickens
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College football, acting, opera singing - I approached them all in the same obsessive way.
Forest Whitaker
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I'm not pro-owner or pro-player. I am pro-football. I want the game to go on. I want the game to be tough. I don't want the game to be a killer of our players.
Jim Brown
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It's a big compliment that so many people want to see me. For them, it's all about football. That's what they remember about me.
George Best
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Football is about dreams, about feeling a special sensation, giving a surprise, and inspiring joy.
Claudio Ranieri
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Football players win football games.
Chuck Knox
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I want to be remembered as the football player I was. The private person is nobody's business.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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I never played the game for money and attention. I love football, and I've had a blast.
Chris Borland
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The best thing about high school football in the state of Texas is the whole town shuts down, and there's shoe polish all over businesses and stores. Everyone rallies around you.
Dat Nguyen
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Football is beautiful. Football is beautiful because whether you win, draw, or lose, you can go and shake your opponent's hand, whether they're white or black or red or blue.
Samuel Eto'o
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We have a culture in Freeport, especially in our football department. We feel that we're the best team on Long Island, in New York, hands down.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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I obviously take a lot of pride in what I do on the football field, because that has the ability to influence a lot of people. That puts smiles on people's faces. That gives people a pep in their step on Monday morning when they go back to work.
Drew Brees
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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.
Jeffrey Kluger