Football Quotes
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I started playing football in a school back in Sao Vicente when I was five years old, going towards six. Those were my first steps, among those kids, and then I kept going.
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Wrestlers are a bunch of wanna-be football players.
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I tried to look around to see what I wanted to do. Football was something I knew the most about.
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The game of football has changed for me. It was a personal goal for me at first. But now it's a way to provide for my family. It's a way to provide for my daughter. I'm just ecstatic that I can do that.
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I think that's awesome to have a former player in the GM role, somebody that not only understands the game of football but has played the game of football.
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Messi deserves to win this World Cup for all he has done for football.
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As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.
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We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.
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I know many people said I couldn't go to China because it would be a step backwards in football terms, but I think anyone would at least consider such an offer.
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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.
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The Spanish love their paella, and they love their jamon. And they love their football.
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I can't control what goes on; that's not my responsibility. My responsibility is to go play football. ... I take it as a low blow. I had to work. It wasn't handed to me, I had to get out and grind. It's a golden opportunity [to prove people wrong].
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When I was seven we moved to Orpington, and in my new school, I was kept in for extra lessons to learn 'joined-up' writing instead of playing football. I still think that my poor handwriting and lack of soccer skills date from that period.
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From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football - referees included - are always under terrific scrutiny.
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What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass.
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I think Nick Saban is the greatest college football coach in history over there in Tuscaloosa.
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I drove right into the music with the same sort of attitude as I went into the football stuff with. Just found a routine and hard work, and it helped me progress a lot faster.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought' - but you've got to have a little bit of a zip.
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The world is not kind to whistleblowers - a term of art with particular resonance in football, the most hierarchical and repressive of organized sports, a world of 'systems' and 'programs' and scripted plays, where reading a medical report requires a security clearance, and practice fields are patrolled like Guantanamo Bay.
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Ever since Pele's extraordinary talents blessed the world of football, black footballers have been accepted in the pantheon of the greats. But to achieve commercial recognition is somewhat different: it requires a form of adulation that also spells identification and role model.
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They'd better be physically tough when they start pulling on their football pants.
