Football Quotes
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I played college basketball. When I first decided I was going to play football, there were a lot of people telling me that I wasn't going to make it.
Jimmy Graham
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The energy of college football rivals that of a live performance for me. I am an extremely analytical guy and predicting these games is right up my alley, especially with a little luck thrown in. It is even more fun when I am winning and I have to say, I have fared quite well in my predictions.
Rodney Atkins
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We will use some kind of option and we will throw the football. I hope it will be at our people.
Lou Holtz
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Once you're a football player, you're a football player for life. You always think of yourself in terms of that. We all do. It's hard to get rid of when you can't play anymore.
Pete Carroll
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A couple of times, when we needed a big stop, we didn't get it. We gotta be able to make a play when it presents itself. You have to make it in arena football. That was basically the tale of the tape.
Chris Wallace
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To see my country lose a football match is very hard for someone who has worn the shirt.
Diego Maradona
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As a working-class boy, golf was never really on my radar, and when I was growing up, Irish football was my sporting passion.
Ronan Keating Boyzone
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I was a not-big-enough, not-fast-enough football player who wanted a little bit of an edge on the field. I figured my own sweat, if I could get that off my body, and more importantly, the weight that stood behind it, that would help.
Kevin Plank
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I think a big part of success in football is mental, not physical. How you are inside your head matters more.
Iker Casillas
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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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I say college football began with Rockne.
Ara Parseghian
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They want to take the most cautious route possible. There is still a lot of football to be played. As a competitor, I feel I can go now, but it's not up to me. It's up to the healing. Once the possibility of something happening diminishes, that's when they'll let me play.
Braylon Edwards
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Sophomore year, I got hit in the stomach playing football, and I was out of school for four months. I was in the hospital for two and then out of school for two.
Chad Michael Murray
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When you just work tactically, in pure football sessions, you can see the way they can think football.
Jose Mourinho
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I didn't play JV because I went straight to varsity and started as a 10th grader - that was back in the day when you could not play varsity as a ninth grader. I went right from playing junior high football to varsity.
Jim Kelly
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Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.
Abhishek Bachchan
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It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.
Chuck Noll
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I would say I had anger-management issues, to be honest with you. But it was only on the football field.
Doug Baldwin
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I think college football is a reflection of Middle America. You go into a college football town, and you will find three generations of a family sitting together. It's a rallying point for the university, the community, and the families.
Keith Jackson
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It is wonderful... Steve and Dan took professional football to a whole different level with the way they played the game. The fact that Steve is going in with Dan is very special.
Frank Gifford
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The only way to play football is with reckless abandon, or they'll knock your beard off. And with acting, you have to pull all the stops to make it work.
John Matuszak
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Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures.
Alessandro Del Piero
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I have done well out of TV, but not well enough to buy football clubs. I'm not sure it's ever a way to make money.
Clive Anderson
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Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.
Knute Rockne