Football Quotes
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We cannot constantly supervise everyone in football ...you cannot ask everyone to behave ethically.
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I had no plans once I finished my football career, which was a problem, so I had to go looking for work. Television was the one area that it was easier to get a job than anywhere else.
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I feel fortunate to be a part of a football community that includes leaders who recognize the power of sport to make a difference and who, like so many of my coaches, are defined not only by their knowledge but by their ability to bring out the best in every member of their teams.
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I ain't got nothing to say. I just wanna play football.
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The point about football in Britain is that it is not just a sport people take to, like cricket or tennis. It is built into the urban psyche, as much a common experience to our children as are uncles and school. It is not a phenomenon : it is an everyday matter.
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It took me a long time to figure out that real big-time success comes from taking lots of small, ordinary steps in the right direction. And you can't ever take the next step until you take the first.
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Biggest lesson I learned my first year in the NFL is no one gives a crap about what you did last week. This league is about what have you done for me now. That's the NFL. It's also our culture. So you keep working hard because that's the biggest truth about football.
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I love the game. I love to watch. I watch it with my kids. I'm able to divorce the beauty of the athletics from the corporate entity that is the National Football League.
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I can talk 10 hours about football. From the moment I leave home, I talk about football.
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When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.
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I played football first. I love football. I'm a die-hard Broncos fan. I loved football, but in the offseason, I started playing basketball, and I just fell in love with the game. I've been playing basketball ever since 5th grade.
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Looking at everything I've done in my career as a footballer, at all the titles, I believe that what's hugely important is motivation.
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A Redskin is a football player.
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As a kid, I thought movies were boring. My parents would hire VHS recorders for the weekend and watch Bollywood movies. I'd get bored and go out to Stoke Newington common to play football.
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In Oklahoma, the girls like the big football players. Girls were more interested in those guys, and I was, like, kind of a drama kid.
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I do have one instruction for you, General. Do something about that damned football team.
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I loved playing football. In this particular match the ball happened to hit my right eye, the only one which I could see light and colour with.
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I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?
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Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.
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I don't follow football, but I always watch the Superbowl.
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I like football. I like baseball. When the pitcher and the batter start fighting, that's the best.
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Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
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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.
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But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.
