Football Quotes
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In hindsight, that time out of football gives you the hunger to want to get back to basics and play football.
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Analysts say Obama's new immigration plan will focus on deporting violent criminals. So, this could impact your fantasy football team.
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It's now much more 50-50 in favour of Everton.
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I interned at the NFL Network while I was in college, but I have not had an internship or another job other than football in a very long time.
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To happen in New Orleans, being so close to Tampa, it could have easily been me or my family. I just thought, how could I sit and flip the channel and watch a football game and go on with my average day when people are out of homes and everything they've got? To turn my back on it would be a tragedy in itself.
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Every team, in some sense, plays dirty. The game of football is dirty.
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As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience off the field.
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Football, like boxing, will never go away, just occupy a different role in the American zeitgeist.
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In the summer, you miss the match days, but my wife gets angry, as she doesn't see me on weekends. And football is work. I'm still working on the weekends.
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We South Africans are also crazy about football, so the World Cup can be nothing but successful.
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At the end of the day, who you are as a man is more important than who you are as a football player.
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In my neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, there were a lot of young kids. We all played tackle football after school, but I knew very early on that I was not an athlete.
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Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.
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I left football, and overnight, I couldn't walk. I wet the bed even though the bathroom was only three meters away. It was 4 A.M., and I knew if I stood, my ankle would kill me.
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Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.
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When it comes down to it, you're playing football regardless of what offense you're in.
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That's what we really mean by being feared on the football field. And not actually the player that fears him, it's the offensive coordinator that fears him or the running backs coach.
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The amazing thing about a football team is we can disagree and fight like brothers, but then we come back together. We are able to be open and honest about things that may offend us.
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When I came on the tour, I thought, 'Why don't they treat tennis players the same way they look at football players?' Because I've got news for you: when they are on the pitch, they are not saying, 'Hello, how are you?' out there.
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I want to be remembered as a great footballer and a great player. When our football days are over, that's all we are - people.
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Football is a direct reflection of life. There are wins, there are losses; you get knocked down, you get back up.
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One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes - there were no washing machines - while my handsome and adored husband was off playing football in the park on Sunday morning with all the delightful young men who had been friends to both of us at Cambridge three years earlier.
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I went to college to play football, not to study it.
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A lot of things look good on an academic's blackboard in terms of the actions that need to be taken. It's almost like a football coach, when you draw the X's and O's: Every play that is chalked on that board goes for a touchdown. Well, there are a lot of yards to be made between the line of scrimmage and the touchdown.
