Football Quotes
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Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.
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I started playing football on the streets; I grew up playing football on the streets with my friends, and that's why I was brought up the way I was. That's the school I had - the street football.
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Football is all I know.
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When you think about little league football, high school, and even on to college even more so, you're dealing with a lot of guys that are prideful, that think they're the best - a lot of alpha males. So, typically, you've got to have a guy that can control those guys, and, when he talks, they know he means business. He's a serious guy.
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If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.
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When you lose things like football, which is the game I love - and this is the most important thing in my life - it really puts everything in perspective.
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Shinji is a quality player but he is not the only one who is finding it hard to get regular football. There are many top players in the squad and there is plenty of competition.
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I was captain of Wales; I've been captain of numerous football clubs.
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A win would be better than a draw.
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As a physician, I'm somewhat an advocate of patients. How come, before Mike Webster, no NFL player was told or knew that there was an intrinsic risk of brain damage from playing football?
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If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.
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So I know all about the ups and downs of football, I know that one day I will be sacked.
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I'm happy with the Arena Football League right now. I'm happy in Denver.
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Football was always a deal we made with ourselves. We adopted it for its brutality, which was embedded in a context that happened to be perfectly suited to television and to gambling, but which we could convince ourselves was only incidental to our enjoyment because it was only incidental to the game itself.
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To play in atmospheres that are intense is when I play my best football.
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And if I want to get involved in choosing sides, I usually pick hockey or football.
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Scottish football has been in the doldrums for a long time and it has been a timely boost Walter coming in and following it up with the result against the Italians.
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If other people think I'm okay looking, that's great, but I don't see it myself. When I look in the mirror, all I see is a bunch of fake teeth and football scars.
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They are a very good football team over there. They are No. 1 in many categories and we were trying everything we could.
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In England, the referees don't call many fouls, as opposed to Spanish football. Consequently, you must be really strong all through the 90 minutes.
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I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.
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Paul Scholes is my favourite player. He epitomises the spirit of Manchester United and everything that is good about football.
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I'm from a council estate myself, and the biggest release we had as kids was football. That's where all the great players learn their trade - as kids having a kickabout.
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It's just about bein' yourself...even when you're on the dole, it's about your leather jacket. Music is the last refuge of the working class, along with football...in fact, gigs and riots are the only things left.
