Football Quotes
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I wasn't a crazy kid. I never went out, never went to football games. I was a trained ballerina.
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Every day I pull into that parking spot that says 'Head Football Coach,' I get out of my car and pinch myself sometimes, just to make sure it's real, sort of like, 'Is this really happening?'
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I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football, hockey, boxing, being a cop, being a soldier. There's not a lot of people who are willing to put themselves into those situations.
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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.'
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Things always change in football, and you can never predict anything.
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You think football builds character. It does not. It reveals character.
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I wasn't the brightest kid, not by a long shot. I was interested in football, in girls, in getting my work done with the least amount of effort.
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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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What matters to me more than anything is that when all of this is over, football is the winner.
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Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient.
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I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I never really had a job. I was a football player, then a football coach, then a football broadcaster. It's been my life. Pro football has been my life since 1967. I've enjoyed every part of it. Never once did it ever feel like work.
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The World Cup must remain the number one competition, because it is our only source of money and, with that money, we can develop football in the whole world.
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Basketball also helps you learn to move your feet by playing defense and guarding guys, and that all carries over to playing football with staying square and having good footwork.
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The England manager job is not for me - I'm very happy wih what I'm doing in French football for now.
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Football today would certainly not be the same if it had not existed.
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If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas.
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I felt like I played in a very rough football game with no hitting above the waist.
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The game of football, especially in the NFL, is all about situations, and coming out on the big end of that stick.
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I love the atmosphere football brings; I love being around my teammates; I love the struggle in football. I love the fact that it is a part of my life. I don't look at it as any more important or less important as any other part of my life.
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A lot of stuff's going to happen in a football career that you don't like.
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Football is a religion and Saturday is the holy day of obligation.
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Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and Brazilian footballers compete on a level playing field with their rich white European counterparts.
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I play football, and most football players are camera shy. We just want to be left alone; we just want to stick to what we do.
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China needs a table-tennis-like solidity in football.
