Football Quotes
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I had lots of posters on my bedroom wall of players like Zico, many Brazilian and Italian players, not many players in particular but I loved football so much and I especially loved skilful players.
Emmanuel Petit -
I got a lot of the greatest values in life from playing sports, from playing football - teamwork, sportsmanship, my work ethic, resiliency, dedication - I got it all by being on a team.
Jon Gruden
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I have known Sepp Blatter, FIFA and football for a long time, and there are some fundamental values which FIFA and the ICRC share.
Peter Maurer -
The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.
Vladimir Putin -
I don't want to look at myself like I'm some superhero. But I'm not going to let people wipe their feet on football on my chest.
Jon Gruden -
They're on the right road, but there's a long way to go on concussions, not only in the NFL, but college football, high school football and all football.
John Madden -
We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.
George Best -
When you go out on a football field, you are responsible for taking care of yourself. The more rules you get, the less players truly take care of themselves.
Jim Brown
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I'm really into basketball, baseball, football and working out - but you'll never catch me in a public sauna.
Joey Lawrence -
That's been one of our goals from the beginning of the season and it would be a big accomplishment for this team. It's been in our sights the past couple of weeks and now it's here for us to have if we want it. It's just a matter of whether we can go out there and play football well enough.
Eli Manning -
Is there a way that we would actually recognize the game of football with fewer tackles and fewer collisions? I'm not sure. But I think that's the direction we're going to have to go. Bigger fields? Fewer players on the field? I think we are ultimately going to have to change some of the major rules of the game.
Ann McKee -
I think the best part of being gay is when you're done with sex, you could turn over and talk about football.
Andrew Dice Clay -
“You’ll never have a 16-team playoff in college football. The most that could happen would be four teams in the next century. But after that, I’m dead, so who cares?”
Beano Cook -
Having been in football all my life as a player and a coach and having been on the sideline, I think the closer we can get to bringing people what it's like standing and watching the game on the sideline, with a better view, would be the perfect situation for television football.
John Madden
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I know I can catch the football. That's the least of my worries.
Kevin Maurice Johnson -
I'm on the record as saying Andrew Luck can be the greatest quarterback who ever played the game of football. I've seen him do some unbelievable things that I still can't believe a quarterback was able to do. I have tremendous respect for that guy.
Doug Baldwin -
It's good for Brazilian football to have idols, stars, big stars coming back to Brazilian clubs. The tournaments become much better, more interesting. Ze Roberto, Juninho Pernambucano, Ronaldinho Gaucho, and other players who have returned to Brazil strengthen the league and improve the tournaments.
Neymar -
'… 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 -
All I really have going is football. I don't know what I would do without it.
Jon Gruden -
I just love football.
Jon Gruden
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Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time.
Arnold J. Mandell -
I'd followed the strange deaths of pro football players for years, sensing something odd going on.
Peter Landesman -
The social issues outside of football are not as defined as they were earlier, when integration took place and certain rights were legislated. The Civil Rights movement is over. Individuals can buy homes wherever they want, travel first class wherever they want, eat wherever they want.
Jim Brown -
I started out wanting to coach football.
Lee Majors