Football Quotes
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If you were ever to interview me after a football game or at a football game or around me during football season is totally different than when you catch me away from football.
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I've been obsessed by football since I was young.
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Even though I support the blue side of Manchester's football heritage, I don't really mind that wherever I go in the world it's not Manchester City that starts the conversation. 'Ah, yes, Manchester United,' is the response when I say where I come from. It's commonplace everywhere - in Europe, Africa, Asia and even the U.S.
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We're hoping that there is large-scale recognition that CTE is a risk when playing football.
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I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed.
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Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.
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Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed, to win a national championship. And that worry leads to pressure to compromise academic standards to admit those athletes.
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In football, you can never say anything is certain. The benchmark is 38-40 points. That has always been the case. That will never change.
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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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Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win
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It is better to give a lick than receive one. If anybody got in my way, I tried to run right through them.
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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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My construction business represents 10 or 20 times what I'll ever invest in football. But from the moment I bought the Chargers, I would become forever known as the owner of that NFL franchise.
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Football is a violent game. We are violent men.
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Tiger had the advantage of high school, college, and a father who knew golf. I was self-taught. Blacks really won't play golf in great numbers until some of these basketball and football stars buy some golf courses where blacks can play.
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I'm not going to lie: I'm a competitive player. I think there's no point playing football if you're not competitive and you don't want to win games.
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Our parents helped us, or we wouldn't be here. Lacy Van Zant and my mother used to sign for amps or loan us money to get to the gig or take us in their car. It's just like little sports guys - Little League and football players - whose parents help them. That's why they get good.
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It doesn't really surprise me and I hope that what George Best has given to football will improve the game as we know it.
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Through school, I saw plenty of theatre my parents weren't necessarily up on. They would prefer a football game to watching 'The Nutcracker,' and that's fine. I enjoy both.
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I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.
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When cars honk and hoot and drunks squeeze out of car windows and scream, you can be sure that football is in the air.
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I was born in a mining village, and you either played football or played football. If you didn't play, there was something wrong with you.
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I've grown over the years and I know how to adapt to situations, where I can go into a situation where there's a crowd of people and just take over. But pretty much I'm off to myself. And I'm totally committed to the game of football. That's why I've had so much success.
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I just want to maximize my time here on the football field and after that, I don't know what I'll do. I can coach, I can do a lot of things.
