Football Quotes
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I will certainly continue in football in a different role. I will continue with my contractual, publicity and managerial commitments and finish my studies for coaching.
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A day without football is a day lost.
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I think it is high time that Europe starts to understand that we do not rule the world anymore, and that some former European imperial powers can no longer impress their will on to others in far away places, and we must accept that football has moved away from being a European and South American sport: it has become the World Sport that billions of fans are excitedly following every week, everywhere in the world.
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There's nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren't going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more.
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With my father, there was one baseball game, one football game, one fishing trip. You got one of everything. And that was all you got. It was enough, though, and I adored him. He was a god to me.
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You know that wherever you go, not everyone will speak your language. But go and experience the local culture and try to pick up as much as you can. I certainly think going forward - away from football because football is just a small part of your life - you will grow as a person.
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A football team is like a company. All of the people working in a company are not supposed to love each other, but they are supposed to be professional.
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The last time I was charged by the FA they had a murder lawyer in against me, so it's going to be a hard case to win.
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As long as we're winning football games, I'm happy.
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I like our whole team. That's the biggest thing about football. It's got to be your whole team. It just can't be one side carrying the other.
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The idea that I can provide for my mother and play at the highest level in the world for football and compete against the best guys in the world - it's a very exciting idea.
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The quibble I have with President [Barack] Obama is,and I think some other people will have it, too is that the rhetoric is fine, and identifying the problem is fine. But it`s to use a football analogy, he sort of pushes it into the red zone, and then tends to settle for a field goal.
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I have a limited amount of time to build a career out of football and be the best that I can be at this job. When this job is over, I have the rest of my life to do what I want with my time.
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Football is big business - you can't get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.
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It has all happened so quickly, but it's exciting, I just wanna get back to playing football you know.
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You know what I wonder about? This - the more details of Sven-Göran Eriksson's love life that appear in the press, the more contempt he attracts for his choice of substitutes in England games. Now, we haven't done the research, but my guess is that Sven's performances in the sack and that of his subs on the pitch are not correlated. So why do we link them?
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I adapt my idea of football to my players, not adapt my players in my idea of football. It's important because there are others players that must play. The players are the most important things in football. I adapt my idea within my players.
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He really fought the odds. They took away football, but he still did four years of college and will graduate.
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What is especially irritating about the whole abortion debate is the way the subject has been used as a political football by those on both the right and the left of the political aisle.
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I think in China, they know you have to have a solid nationwide plan. It does not help to have a football hotspot in the north or the south.
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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.
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The longer Jose Mourinho goes on, and on, and on, the more difficult it is for me not to despise him and the set of values he's bringing to football.
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It was the proudest moment of my career to lead my team out at the home of English football. I never, ever dreamt that would happen!
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I did play two years of high school football and was very short and uncoordinated but the second year I was very tall and skinny and very uncoordinated.
