Football Quotes
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It was nice to finish up Stanford. I think I always felt that I would be there for four years and graduate, and definitely didn't want to leave early. A degree was definitely a plus, and I was having a lot of fun in school. But after football, you know, I don't know. I really did enjoy studying architecture; it was a blast.
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Growing up, I was the only Indian kid around for miles, so I ached to belong. I had a neighborhood pack of nine guys and two girls, and we hung out all the time. We played football, baseball, and broom-hockey on the iced-up lake.
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You have to take care of the ball to win football games.
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People have got to realize that we have had a lot of injuries and this is a school of 140 kids. When we have everybody, we're a pretty good football team. But suffering injuries and having people step up are part of the game.
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Anytime that the Arizona Cardinals play football, I scream at the top of my lungs at the television. And I have certain dances that I do.
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Basketball, unlike football with its prescribed routes, is an improvisational game, similar to jazz. If someone drops a note, someone else must step into the vacuum and drive the beat that sustains the team.
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Anything in between the white lines is deemed football.
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To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it.
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Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.
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Whatever your business is, we all have a drama going on in our own lives. We're all unhappy about something. You have sickness, marital problems, a myriad of things going wrong in everybody's life. You have to deal with those things right away. You have to get their full concentration on football. I'd like to be able to communicate even more with my players when things aren't going bad, but it's just like everything else in life. The problems take over, and you wind up chasing the problems. I'd say handling people is the most important thing you do as a coach. Dealing with people, really, is all football is.
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In football, specialists are only useful up to a point. That worries me. You can field a dilettante anywhere. That pleases me.
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It was tough to quit football. But after I was injured, I didn't want people paying money to see only half a John Matuszak.
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College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy.
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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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You can't take a single day for granted in the National Football League. Every single day, you need to earn your spot on the roster.
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Obviously football is my first sport. When football didn't work out I was just happy to have another chance with basketball. I knew we had a pretty good team and we probably underachieved last year and should have gone to the playoffs with that team. What ever way I can get to the playoff I'm happy.
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Ben Schwartzwalder was a decent guy, but he was from another era. He was like a Marine, with a real army attitude. He thought there was only one way to play football, and that was the rough way.
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My father was an all-American football player.
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When a kid plays football games before he attends a class, something is wrong.
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It is the greatest game that I've ever been around. It'll continue to get better and be the greatest.
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Why is it good for football to take the excitement away from fans by overcharging them for tickets to see their team?
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One of London's massive strengths is its sporting prowess, its great football teams.
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The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play football for the Colts anymore.
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Preseason football is hard to evaluate. It's never going to be clean for the quarterbacks. You have to overcome the ugly plays and be productive. It's a component of leadership that is necessary. The guys that make it in the league survive that.
