Football Quotes
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If you're going to play high school football, you do it in Texas or Florida or Georgia for the simple fact it's such a big deal.
J. R. Martinez
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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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To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.
Lou Holtz
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I was never too much into school. I liked lunchtimes and breaks, but nah, I hated sitting at a desk. I was always looking out of the window, looking at my watch, thinking about when I could play football.
Gareth Bale
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A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.
Bill Shankly
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One of the reasons I never went into pro football was because I wanted my kids to grow up around an academic environment. And that's exactly what we did.
Ara Parseghian
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You know how ESPN works; they'll throw themselves into a frenzy over Tebow's white bread lame ass niceness and then vilify Johnny Football just 'cause he rages now and then.
Dabo Swinney
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I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games.
Bo Jackson
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It's none of our business, the sexual preference of people. So, I hope if someone's thinking about it, that if they do come out as gay and are a professional football player, and it makes them happy, and it makes their life easier, then I think they should do it.
Andrew Luck
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At the end, there was some unbelievable plays. It really took my breath away.
Joe Gibbs
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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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There are a lot of bad people in football, and players can be afraid to go to stadiums and get abused.
Antoine Griezmann
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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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I need to go play football. I don't care about anything else.
Freddy Adu
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I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.
Taylor Lautner
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As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.
Luis Figo
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Shevchenko is the best attacker in Europe. He has a great deal of consistency and he just keeps scoring - which in Italian football is very difficult. He is a complete player, someone who can do everything on a football field. Andriy Shevchenko
Andriy Shevchenko
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We have got a problem winning games in the league. We have to educate ourselves and maybe we have to not play the lovely football that we have been.
Kenny Dalglish
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We will play football. We will box and play lacrosse and ice hockey and snowboard and surf and drive fast cars, climb trees, and do dozens of things that we know are potentially concussive. We will do this because we are human and animals, and we like speed and contact and aggressive maneuvering and all such things.
Peter Berg
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Every kid I've been around as a football player, they want their coaches to make them better as men and as players.
Kirby Smart
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It's a part of football, you get concussed, you gotta keep on playing. You can't get afraid to go across the middle any more than you were at the beginning.
Calvin Johnson
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Everyone in football knows what John Terry's like off the field.
Craig Bellamy
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The game is just, everybody talks about baseball, but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.
Joe Montana
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Some of the most innovative things in football I see at high school games. It's not the play - it's when you run it. The right time.
Bud Grant