Football Quotes
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I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.
Eric Cantona
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I think the Canadian Football League is a great league, but it's not the NFL, and I'm not Jerry Rice.
Darren Flutie
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It is hard being a football loather, a football unfan. I sometimes feel as lonely as the sole survivor in the last reel of a Zombie film, as, one by one, old friends reveal themselves, with their glassy stares and outstretched arms, to have succumbed to the lure.
Craig Brown
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Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
John Steinbeck
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Shaun Wright-Phillips has got a big heart. It's as big as him, which isn't very big, but it's bigger.
Kevin Keegan
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I would like to thank the United staff for making me feel so welcome and part of the United family from my first day. And of course thank you to those fans who have supported me throughout the season.
David Moyes
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I'm from Italy, the home of Vivaldi, Rossini, Puccini. When I stopped playing and became a manager, football became like a beautiful piece of music to me - and the players, an orchestra.
Claudio Ranieri
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I think that people that don't really understand the game of football and are just fans that think people just show up on Saturday and go, I don't think they understand the work that we put in here and what our schemes are and what we're trying to do.
Austin Seferian-Jenkins
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I was born with football - my brothers, my dad. I played football when I was a kid. I mean, you know, it was part of life. It's a part of growing up. It's - you know, it's a way of life.
Ann McKee
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To be perfectly honest, I follow football the way I follow television. I read about it.
Alice Dreger
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I really enjoy the football season.
Jimmie Johnson
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I do play football no-holds-barred. Any edge I can get, I'll take. I'd grab a face mask only in a fit of anger. Uncontrolled anger is damn near insane.
Joe Greene
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America needs football. It's a real blue-collar sport; it's played with a blue-collar mentality, a mentality that's the backbone of this country.
Troy Polamalu
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Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.
Oscar Wilde
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Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.
Jimmy Connors
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People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life.
Pete Rozelle
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And if I want to get involved in choosing sides, I usually pick hockey or football.
Dierks Bentley
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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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The beauty of football is that it's about 11, and another five, at least, are sitting outside. You cannot get competitive.
Diego Luna
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I don't like comparisons with football. Baseball is an entirely different game. You can watch a tight, well-played football game,but it isn't exciting if half the stadium is empty. The violence on the field must bounce off a lot of people. But you can go to a ball park on a quiet Tuesday afternoon with only a few thousand people in the place and thoroughly enjoy a one-sided game. Baseball has an aesthetic, intellectual appeal found in no other team sport.
Bowie Kuhn
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I'm a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.
Phil Jackson
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College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity.
H. L. Mencken
