Football Quotes
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What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does to others: it engages the personality.
Arthur Hopcraft -
Coming from a football background, when everybody is doing their job and operating on such a high level, it only motivates you to do the same.
John David Washington
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It has all happened so quickly, but it's exciting, I just wanna get back to playing football you know.
Michael Sam -
I lust love to play football.
Ray Nitschke -
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.
Emmanuel Petit -
In all of nature structure determines function. Yet many people consider the marathoner and football linebacker all to be just one composite human being, an athlete. The body must be used to determine its role in sport. 'My aim is to develop every individual according to his best potential, protect him from false ambition, the desire to be someone he never can be and, more important, never should be.'
William Herbert Sheldon -
Be patient with the negative people of the world. Take a moment to think how they are helping you clarify your own thinking and firming your own resolve. Then, headslap them out of your way.
Deacon Jones -
I'm not going to revolutionise football. I'm in a system. You have to know how to respect it and to stay in place.
Kylian Mbappe
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It's good to have critics because that's what motivates you and helps you take your game to another level, They talked about Michael Jordan and said he didn't have a jump shot. They say the same thing about me ? I can't throw the football and all that. Say whatever you want about me. It makes me strive harder.
Michael Vick -
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.
Andrew Luck -
You have to be on the pitch to play football.
Gerry Francis -
I just didn't want to walk away from football without knowing what it meant to be a manager, or even wondering what it was like to be sacked.
Paul Ince -
I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.
Brett Favre -
Without a healthy team spirit you won't get anywhere in football.
Berti Vogts
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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.
Berti Vogts -
Blues ain’t football. You don’t have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.
Elvin Bishop -
Football allows the intellectual part of my brain to evolve, but it allows the emotional part to remain unchanged. It has a liberal cerebellum and a reactionary heart. And this is all I want from everything, all the time, always.
Chuck Klosterman -
Spanish football is very good but every year the same teams win the league.
Royston Drenthe -
I don't think some of the people who come to Old Trafford can spell football, never mind understand it.
Roy Keane -
I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.
John Malkovich
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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.
Ray Lewis -
Messi is the best player in the history of football, and that’s why I prefer Barça over Real Madrid.
Antonio Cassano -
I started playing football young, and my career was on the pitch.
Pep Guardiola -
But I am very confident that David Pleat, the director of football or whatever his title is now days - I am very confident that he, with all his media commitments around the world, knows the market place.
Billy Davies