Football Quotes
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In college football brad, you know, when you make a first down, first downs that you have possession of aren't really that important because if you make a first down it stops the clock.
Bob Griese
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I'm not going to lie: I'm a competitive player. I think there's no point playing football if you're not competitive and you don't want to win games.
Dele Alli
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I'd followed the strange deaths of pro football players for years, sensing something odd going on.
Peter Landesman
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What I am most proud of is the legacy of hope that FIFA and football leaves around the world. It makes all of the efforts and energy I pour into this job worth it.
Sepp Blatter
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I stay in my bubble; I concentrate on the football. I work, and I try to learn English as quickly as possible.
Anthony Martial
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In playoff football, you've got to be physical. You've got to run the ball.
Ezekiel Elliott
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It is not hard for me to remember when I was in college. I loved many things about college life: I loved learning. I loved the comradery. And I loved football.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability.
LeBron James
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Our parents helped us, or we wouldn't be here. Lacy Van Zant and my mother used to sign for amps or loan us money to get to the gig or take us in their car. It's just like little sports guys - Little League and football players - whose parents help them. That's why they get good.
Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
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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
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Football is a whole skill to itself. A whole world. A whole universe to itself. Me love it because you have to be skilful to play it! Freedom! Football is freedom.
Bob Marley
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My brothers played football. In fact, I was an absolutely enormous Packer fan, and because I was raised in such a football-centric community, I have always had a terrific admiration for football players.
Ann McKee
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Football isn't nuclear physics, but it's not so simple that you can make it simple. It takes some explaining to get it across.
John Madden
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You have to be on the pitch to play football.
Gerry Francis
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That Monday after we lost to Washington, that's when everything hit the fan. But instead of succumbing to the environment at that particular time, it was more or less, 'What are we going to do to make this thing turn around?' We decided we had a lot more football to play, and what a story it would be if we turned it around and made the playoffs. And we did just that.
Eddie George
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My goals in football helped make me disciplined and focused in all areas of my life.
Benjamin Watson
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Belgium's not a hotpot of international football.
Alan Brazil
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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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You need players that stand for emotion in football. Football today is a game for television.
Berti Vogts
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I wanted to play football all my life, and when I got accepted to Florida State, it was academically - it wasn't for any kind of scholarship. I kind of sat down and said, 'I'm not going to make it to the NFL. I'm not the size nor the skill.'
Matt Cohen
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Baseball is not like football, basketball where a momentum is something made. You don't really have that kind of momentum in baseball.
William C. Rhoden
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Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we.
Sepp Blatter
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As it happens, Cumberland was on the verge of bankruptcy and had to give up football. But the villainous Heisman made it play a game that had been scheduled when Cumberland still had a team, or Heisman threatened to demand a $3,000 forfeiture fee that could well have put the school out of existence.
Frank Deford
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Nothing jazzes me up like football. I've acquired more passion of the years, not less. Not to love it wouldn't make sense.
John Madden