Football Quotes
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We need the quarterbacks. It's a passing league and a quarterback-driven league. We need the Peyton Mannings in football uniforms out there playing - the Tom Bradys, the Drew Breeses, the Philip Riverses - we need those guys instead of them standing on the sideline.
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I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.
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Did you used to play for Barcelona? Because that's not Barcelona football.
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You can win, but you have to show that you win with the idea of playing good football.
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When I grew up, the only way a lad like me would maybe escape was playing football. Not being an actor.
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My dream was to play for Alabama - football, basketball.
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I wouldn't watch football if it wasn't for Lord Bendtner.
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I used to play football, and then my wife bought me a fishing rod.
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You can talk about what you see from the outside; it's hard to tell me who I am when you're just looking at me with a football uniform on. That's a totally different person. That's my job, that's it.
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The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.
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I leave work by 6:30 P.M. so I can spend some time with the children. Inevitably, we'll end up watching basketball or football. I live in a house of boys, and they're all sports mad, so I don't stand a chance.
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In football, you're taught to react by being aggressive, taught to react with violence. If you can't separate that on the field and off the field, you're going to be in a lot of trouble in your life.
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I think the best part of being gay is when you're done with sex, you could turn over and talk about football.
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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.
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Deeper fulfilment is rather different from the happiness of seeing a good film or watching your team win at football, and it doesn't come at the push of a button.
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There are hundreds of Beckhams playing football all over the world.
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I'm really glad that Italy went out, they were playing boring football. (on Euro 2004)
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Thank you... fantasy football draft, for letting me know that even in my fantasies, I am bad at sports.
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This is a privilege, what we get to do. To be able to tell stories. It's a luxury. So I have a business-like approach to it, the same way I had with football.
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Sports like baseball or baseball are easy to dramatise, because all of them have a pause and that helps with the tension. Football never stops. I'm a football fan. I believe in the beauty of the game.
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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.
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Football is beautiful. Football is beautiful because whether you win, draw, or lose, you can go and shake your opponent's hand, whether they're white or black or red or blue.
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We're gonna play fast, we're gonna play physical, we're gonna play furious, and we're gonna play contact football.
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I realize I'm very fortunate to hopefully make a lot of money playing football. I don't know if I want to abuse that privilege and make myself a larger figure than I am.
