Football Quotes
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You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.
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I feel fortunate that there was a place like the CFL where I could hone my skill and become a consistent football player and have a nice career.
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You have to be realistic. I'd love to be more famous, have lots of people supporting me, people knowing my name, but I need a tennis racket or a golf club or to play football. Being a female, I don't stand a chance.
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You win and you're in; you lose and you're out. We've been in that situation the past four weeks, ever since the three (consecutive) losses (in November).
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As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment.
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I take football as an avenue to different opportunities. Football is not using me; I'm using football.
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I really enjoy the football season.
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Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull.
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I did well in school, was the captain of the wrestling team and the football team, and always got along well with people, so I'm sure I would have gotten a job in the real world. I probably wouldn't have liked that, though.
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Football is a sad game.
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Never go for a 50-50 ball unless you're 80-20 sure of winning it.
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Football is all I know.
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Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some - or occasionally lose.
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My brother was the one who really gave me the desire to follow in his footsteps. Also, it was really Ronaldinho and Ronaldo, the two Brazilian players, who also inspired me to a future in football.
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We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.
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That's kind of how I approach life and football; why dwell on something that's hasn't happened.
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Football's the biggest game in the world. America's the greatest sporting nation there is. To play some part in putting those two things together: why wouldn't I be excited about that?
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I wasn't like other boys. At any rate, I wasn't like my three elder brothers: they excelled at football and they were like other boys, going up to bed each night hugging annuals filled with stories about the glories of Pele and Danny McGrain.
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To play in atmospheres that are intense is when I play my best football.
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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.
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I'm concerned about the future of football, because we have paid a lot of attention to concussions. We are more aware of concussions. But it's really the repetitive minor injuries, the ones that are asymptomatic that occur on almost every play of the game, the sub-concussive hits: that's the big problem for football.
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No, no, I don't watch football. The last time I tried watching was the last Super Bowl. The problem I have is, you know, the graphic nature of my imagination; when I watch and see them meeting head onto head, helmet onto helmet, what flashes through my mind is what's going on in their brains. It's like torture to me.
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I was captain of Wales; I've been captain of numerous football clubs.
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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.
