Football Quotes
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Some people seem to think football is like theatre and that everyone has to play the good guy. But I think that you transform when you cross the white line: you're not the same person as off it.
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My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I'm obsessed.
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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.
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My brother Joseph is ill. He has leukemia. They say I've shown courage on the football field, but for me it's only on the field, and only in the fall. Joey lives with pain all the time. His courage is 'round the clock. I want him to have this trophy. It's more his than mine, because he's been such an inspiration to me.
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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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Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.
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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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Whenever I think of baseball, the first name that comes to mind is Babe Ruth. What the Babe was to baseball, Shula is to football coaching. There are certain figures in sports who are larger than the games they play or coach, and Don Shula is one of those.
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Things are neither clear nor clean in the world of football right now and many people recognise this reality.
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Football, bloody hell!
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Football is a violent sport, but you know what you sign up for when you put those shoulder pads on. I agree with certain aspects of it. I disagree with certain aspects of it. I've had concussions and I'm still here. I still love the sport. I think I'm still very healthy.
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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.
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When I'm done playing football, I just might be the couch potato dad.
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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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We do not pull in and fill up. And I'll tell you why we don't. It's because I don't buy one goddamn drop of gas in the state of Michigan. We'll coast and push this goddamn car to the Ohio line before I give this state a nickel of my money.
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Being able to play basketball at a high level, adjusting to the ball in the air, quick feet, quick hands and all that stuff definitely translates to playing tight end in the National Football League.
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God ain't got nothing to do with winning a damn football game.
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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 play a lot of football, watch a lot of football, and think about football.
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Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.
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In England, football is important for everybody.
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In the media, I always seemed to come across as someone who was poking fun at the Scots and their football. I guess the Scottish public needed someone to blame for their international defeats, and I fitted the bill perfectly.
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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.
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Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
