Football Quotes
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I don't like going to football games. I like watching them on television. When you go to a game, it's hard to focus. There's so much going on, and it's cold. I'd rather sit and watch it and get replays and commentary.
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When I look back at football, I've always said to myself, 'I'd rather leave the game and have something in my tank rather than have left all of me out on the field.'
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FIFA's goal of making the world a better place through football cannot be achieved through our efforts alone - equally important is the power which every fan of the beautiful game has at their disposal.
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I learned from Al Davis. We didn't have any secretaries. Secretaries, really, in Oakland were young football people.
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Professional football is the most violent thing your eyes have ever seen.
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My fantasy football team got mixed up in another fantasy and now they're stuck on a pirate ship with a chick in a Catwoman suit.
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I can't keep sitting on the bench and letting my life go on, smoking a cigar and not doing anything. It's not me. I want to be playing football.
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When Rioch came to Millwall we were depressed and miserable. He's done a brilliant job of turning it all around. Now we're miserable and depressed.
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Yorkie has officially retired about 5 times... The man's a clown... People are going on about the game and agents and directors of football and managers losing their jobs, but we should be worried about people like him... Clowns. That's the last time I'm going to say clown... If he's the vice-president of FIFA, God help us all.
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Once I decided football was the way for me, there was no looking back. Nothing was going to distract me.
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Oh I'm sorry - I don't follow football.
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Footballers today are forced to conform to a bodily aesthetic that in its rigidity and uniformity makes fashion models look as varied as snowflakes. This wasn't always so. Up until the 1980s most teams in all divisions had a couple of fat ones, a couple of little ones, at least one bandy one, one completely covered in hair, two weaklings and a chap with no neck. This was an era when you didn't need names on the backs of shirts in order to tell who's who, you could clearly identify them with your eyes half shut from the other side of the pitch.
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I just came to West Ham to play football, the rest is not for me to say.
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In football, the only game I know is the 90-minutes game. It's not mind games; I don't try to do that.
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Football's always easier when you've got the ball.
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I don't think some of the people who come to Old Trafford can spell football, never mind understand it.
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Well, I don't think I've necessarily ever been a passionate football player or a passionate person.
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It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.
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I think a big part of success in football is mental, not physical. How you are inside your head matters more.
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For me, I want to improve, to play good football in a good league; the money is not the most important thing.
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I've been really anxious to get back on the football field. The main thing now is its over with.
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I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you.
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I love good flowing football where the whole team is engaged.
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When you're growing up, you have your heroes, and you hear about people going off to other countries to play football, but when you're so young, you're not thinking about that. You just play. No referee, no rules.
