Football Quotes
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Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, a football players. We're in the boredom-killing business.
Paddy Chayefsky
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What's kind of happening is the conflict over football might be a class conflict where there is a percentage of people who have no relationship to physicality and a percentage of the populace who still does.
Chuck Klosterman
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China needs a table-tennis-like solidity in football.
Berti Vogts
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Football is a game that fascinates people around the World like nothing else.
Berti Vogts
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We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.
Kevin J. Anderson
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A football team represents a way of being, a culture.
Michel Platini
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I spent most of my youth in Manchester, in clubs and football grounds and the Manchester Apollo.
John Simm
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Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we.
Sepp Blatter
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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.
Jermain Defoe
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America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen.
Peter Welch
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You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.
Craig Johnston
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Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.
Brett Favre
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Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?
Lesley Garrett
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We are kind of in a false reality here, playing football.
Doug Baldwin
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I started playing football young, and my career was on the pitch.
Pep Guardiola
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Monday Night Football started in 1970, and when it started, it was something extremely special because sports had not been aired in prime time. So, it was a novelty, and a lot of people thought it wouldn't work, and, of course, it worked spectacularly well.
Al Michaels
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As someone who loves football, I will continue to speak out frankly about FIFA's problems.
Chung Mong-joon
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I am a great football player. I had my own club when I was 14 years old. Football is in my blood, and I have been a fan of Fulham for the last 30 years.
Mohamed Al-Fayed
