Football Quotes
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Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.
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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.
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It's something you dream about as a kid. Like when you play all those NCAA video games as a kid and you create your own player and win the Heisman with a bunch of crazy numbers. It's the biggest, most prestigious award in college football, so it'd definitely be a dream come true.
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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.
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If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.
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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.
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Why is football important? Good question. Like Will Rogers said, all of us can't be heroes, somebody's gotta sit on the curb and clap when they ride by. I think that's what it is. People want to pull for something, whether it's America and you want to fly your flag ... why are NASCAR fans so adamant? Why do they pull for Jeff Gordon or Little E? People want to have something to pull for. You become part of a brotherhood. If you're a Dallas Cowboy fan, you seek out other Dallas Cowboy fans.
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...and he crosses the line with the ball almost mesmerically tied to his foot with a piece of string.
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Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal, especially when Dennis Bergkamp was playing. He seemed to be able to read the game like a chessboard and knew where a player would be several seconds later and put the ball there for him.
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The closest I've come to knowing myself is in losing myself. That's why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.
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Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
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As the youngest of six kids, I grew up spending summers on Martha's Vineyard, and I was always topless. All the pictures are of me in jean shorts, no shirt - with my brothers, playing football.
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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.
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We were really lucky and fortunate in the '70s because we got a group of not only good football players but good people... a group that wanted to be together and wanted to be the best.
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I just came to West Ham to play football, the rest is not for me to say.
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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.
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Then I went to UCLA - so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan... and later came to football.
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I live and breathe football.
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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.
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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.
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It's the home run. The long reception in football, I guess. It's the big thing.
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You're going to hurt, yes. You're going to have tweaks and problems. But you're a football player; you can play through those.
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I wouldn't let my children play football.
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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.
