Football Quotes
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Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
Fran Lebowitz
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In my own opinion, psychology in football is far more important than anyone believes, including the coaches.
Ara Parseghian
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I used to play football all the time. In the U.S., people don't play football, so I had to learn basketball. Looking back, that's what I like about my life - doing new things, having a new perspective.
Barkhad Abdi
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In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.
Maurice Greene
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Over the years, we settled into American life and embraced it fully. But having come from a different culture, I didn't know the boundaries of American culture. Which is that, as a girl, you didn't play football or soccer at lunch with the boys, and to be cool, you didn't get into math Olympiad.
Pardis Sabeti
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My aim as a frontman is always to try and shrink the venue, if you can, to turn that football stadium into the world's smallest club. At least you have to try.
Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
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I have no hesitation in putting a name to the embodiment of all that I think is best about football. It's Paul Scholes. In so many ways Scholes is my favourite.
Bobby Charlton
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Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
Bo Jackson
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Every player feels differently about playing football. We are all different people. I am the type who wants to win all the time. I hate to lose.
Luis Suarez
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To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.
Lou Holtz
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I need to go play football. I don't care about anything else.
Freddy Adu
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As a young girl, football is where I met the people who, to this day, are my best friends. It is also where I began to learn about the important relationship between hard work, teamwork, and fun.
Ali Krieger
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Boxing is a great example of it, but in football, sometimes you're taking greater hits than boxers. When you have one man going full speed against another man, and those heads are colliding, it's just the fact of science you're going to have results.
Jim Brown
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Football's the big cheese, if you like. It's easy to have a swipe. There's a lot of footballers, and when they fall foul, they become big news.
Gary Lineker
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Football is a team sport, and there is no one individual who is bigger than the next person.
Emmitt Smith
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For some girls it’s sexy when a guy bench-presses or throws a football, but he’s slaying me with the book references.
Carolyn Mackler
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I have a lot of college football players in my Brain Bank with CTE.
Ann McKee
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There is no free speech in football. Information is parsed by monosyllabic head coaches, who dictate who gets to speak to whom and when.
Jane Leavy
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Everywhere I go now, people are like, 'That's the guy from 'Dancing With the Stars!' It's pretty good that you're not just a football player but you're in the entertainment world.
Donald Driver
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Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.
Jim Sensenbrenner
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There's nothing more pathetic than listening to a football game over the Internet, but I've done that.
Matt Besser
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Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.
Ving Rhames
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I've been writing since I was sixteen. At first, I wrote mostly short stories and poetry. The first thing I ever had published was a poem about a football game. It was printed in my local newspaper.
Jerry Spinelli
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I am passionate about football. My support for Celtic FC has got me through some hard times in my life. I still play regularly, too.
Rod Stewart