Football Quotes
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I boxed. I did track and field; I did basketball, football, any sport I was able to sign up for.
Eddie Alvarez -
Certainly, our work has identified CTE in many professional football players, but we're also seeing it in a very high percentage of college players.
Ann McKee
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There are very few passions in my life - The man upstairs, family, and football.
Jon Gruden -
I think, when you reach the top level, it is less about the money itself; it is important only because the level of earning shows the importance of the player or the manager. I don't think people want to have the money just to spend it. It is a reflection of your importance in football.
Antonio Conte -
Tiger is the greatest thing that's happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I've heard about him seems to be true.
Payne Stewart -
In football, I learned about trust, handling failure, embracing discomfort, and rejection, which has helped with the auditions.
John David Washington -
If we want the best pitcher, let's get Bobby Feller. If want the best football player, let's get Jimmy Brown; the best basketball player, let's get Bill Russell. If we want the guy who can do the best job for the United States - let's get Donald Trump.
Bobby Knight -
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.
Jay Chandrasekhar
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I think that football has always had a passionate, aggressive side, with players giving their all. People have to get used to this.
Diego Costa -
In football, you're hitting, so you might as well hit in practice.
Logan Mankins -
When I got fired from coaching, I started coaching high school because my son played. I realized real quick that high school football is in trouble. There's no budget. A lot of kids have got to pay to play, and every year, coaches are getting out of the profession. Kids aren't playing like they used to. It bothers me.
Jon Gruden -
I'm the football coach around here and don't you remember it.
Bill Peterson -
A Redskin is a football player.
Daniel Snyder -
I played one year of fantasy football in high school. You really get into it. It makes more fans of the NFL, and people love talking about it. They'll come up to me and say, 'Why did you throw an interception? You ruined my fantasy team!' Or they're happy because they got you for a bargain.
Andrew Luck
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The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.
Eric Cantona -
We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supports Liverpool. He was Everton for a while because of his family - but it's all Liverpool now.
Linda McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
I only like to play football.
Isco -
When I'm done playing football, I just might be the couch potato dad.
Troy Polamalu -
I got a lot of flak; in Texas, football is not only the social thing you must do, but you do it also to prove your manhood. They all couldn't conceive of why I'd want to stop to do 'The Importance of Being Earnest.'
Powers Boothe -
You're convincing these big, tough football players to wear what was essentially women's lingerie. There was a little bit of a Jedi mind trick that needed to take place. The product really spoke for itself once guys felt it and touched it.
Kevin Plank
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As a former football player who has carried a football more than 4,000 times, trust me, I did not go into ballroom dancing with my body being 100 percent, with no aches or pains or ailments coming with me. When you're dancing, you're doing stuff that your body's not used to, and so you start to aggravate those old injuries.
Emmitt Smith -
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.
Stephen Bruce -
I always said I was good football player, I'm fine as an actor, but I'm a great dad.
Dean Cain -
'… the National Football League needs 'a guardian, not a CEO' to deal with the fact that 'the sport is simply more and more identified with violence, both in its inherent nature and in its savage personnel.'
Frank Deford