Football Quotes
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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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There's room for boys' and girls' football in the world-that's what I believe.
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My reality was that if there was a defenseless player, if that person didn't touch the ball, I would not hit them. I was not going to strike you if you didn't have an opportunity to get the ball.
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Football is the best way to get to know a people and a city.
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In the late-'80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl was on TV, but it didn't really catch on. When I was a kid, though, I became a big Miami Dolphins fan. I don't really know why - I just liked the logo, I guess. I didn't really know what was going on.
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Christiano knows English, Messi knows football
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I'm comfortable with that [a week's practice]. I've had numerous weeks of working on it, and a lot of it has been football specific. One week of practice actually, one week of official practice and I'll be more than comfortable.
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It's true that time is against me, and I am closer to hanging up my boots, but one thing I have clear is that I will be involved in football. I don't know how, but I will be related to football. It's my life.
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The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.
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The point about football in Britain is that it is not just a sport people take to, like cricket or tennis. It is built into the urban psyche, as much a common experience to our children as are uncles and school. It is not a phenomenon : it is an everyday matter.
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I've grown up a lot, and I have such great memories of playing football.
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Probably that as a top, top, top event should be played only at the top venues. But Europa League and everything else should be shared with the others who love football.
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He came in shouting 'goal of the season' - typical Jonjo. He's got that in the locker.
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I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.
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I do not feel that I have a mandate from the entire world of football - the fans, the players, the clubs, the people who live, breathe and love football.
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For me, Jews and football go together like a horse and carriage.
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Increasingly, football fans are arguing that the game is bloated with too much down time. The officiating is clumsy.
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Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.
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I grew up playing football and baseball.
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Preseason game plans are always about fundamentals and playing football. You're not trying to out-scheme anybody, you're just trying to beat people and out-execute people. That's what's fun to me.
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It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.
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It doesn't matter who you are, football's a business. At some stage you're going to have to leave a football club; that's just normal.
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My goals in football helped make me disciplined and focused in all areas of my life.
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I've had a lot of clouds in my life since I got into pro football -- too many -- but now I feel like I can see really clearly for the first time. And I can see the Super Bowl from here.
