Football Quotes
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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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In modelling or football, being 30 is very bad. But, for an actress, ageing is like wine. You taste better and better because your body, your mind, your feelings, all this is a tool and it's getting sharper with time.
Ludivine Sagnier
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My wife runs the house much better than I could so I think she could be a linesman or a referee or even a football manager and that's the truth.
Ian Holloway
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It feels good when it helps to get a good seat for a football game. But it never helped me make a good film or a good shot in a polo game, or command the obedience of my daughter. It doesn't.
Walt Disney
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I was a basketball player. And my mother even wanted me to quit because I hurt my leg. But I didn't know anything about football - from Pee-Wee on up, my friends would play, and I would never go with them.
Jason Pierre-Paul
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Things are neither clear nor clean in the world of football right now and many people recognise this reality.
Diego Maradona
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The decisions I've made have not always been the most popular, but when I look back, I want to know I've played for good football teams.
Alan Smith
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Money is not important to me. I've got enough. The organization has extremely blessed me. I'm here to play football, and that's what I want to be known as.
Antonio Brown
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I started playing full-equipment football when I was 6 years old. My mom actually got me started in it.
Antonio Brown
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I understand football. I have always been a good footballer, and that gets overlooked by most people.
Alan Smith
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If you play football, there's going to be a 100 percent injury rate. Something is going to be bothering you. So I just try to focus on the things that I can do to help my team.
Larry Fitzgerald
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Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.
Bryan Robson
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I think now Messi is probably done more than most players. But he is in the same class as Alfredo de Stefano, Johan Cruyff, Pelé. When he finishes and he retires, he will automatically become one of them. A player that people will talk about forever, while the game of football is as good and as popular as it is. He is a sensational player.
Bobby Charlton
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Everybody who knows anything about me knows all I ever wanted to do is play pro football. But I didn't have the talent, and I got hurt a lot. I'd do anything to be out on the field.
Bill Goldberg
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In football you need to have everything in your cake mix to make the cake taste right. One little bit of ingredient that Tony uses in his cake that gets talked about all the time is Rory's throw. Call that cinnamon and he's got a cinnamon flavoured cake.
Ian Holloway
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If you don't want to play clean football then go up into the stands.
Diego Maradona
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Monday Night Football. That was everything to me because you get a chance to show everybody what you're capable of. It's only two teams on that Monday night.
Jerry Rice
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Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
Don Shula
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The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.
Lou Holtz
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There is a movement in club football, which I don't necessarily consider a prime example of solidarity, because it leads us to conclude the rich are getting richer and they are using everything in the market to create an exodus from Africa.
Sepp Blatter
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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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As a football team, you head into the season the same way with confidence and a positive mindset that you are going to win a bunch of football games.
Matthew Stafford
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I don't love football the way I once loved the game. I don't look at it as fun anymore, and it definitely used to be fun. A lot of the fun has been taken away from it, I guess, because you go through so much on the field and off the field.
Eric Dickerson
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In high school, when I played football I got no respect. I shared a locker with a mop.
Jack Roy