Football Quotes
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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.
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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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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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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.
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Growing up, I always thought of Detroit as a basketball town because of the Pistons, but everyone says it's really, at its core, a football town.
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I am more mature. I'm a better football player. I just feel like this is my time.
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I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.
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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 could've kept playing, but football didn't define me.
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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 did come up with the term "sack" to describe the devastation I was bringing on the poor, cringing quarterbacks in the NFL. "Sack the quarterback." That was nice. I thought it was lots better than saying, "Jones tackles the QB behind the line for another loss of yardage ..." It had a ring to it, and it caught on with the sports writers. But I tell you, doing it was a lot more fun than talking about it.
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I sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball.
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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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You want to learn everything that you possibly can, chew it, digest it, and take it for what it is, and then move on.
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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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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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Well, I don't think I've necessarily ever been a passionate football player or a passionate person.
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Tony Fernandes is in that goldfish bowl and he's swimming against the tide.
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Football is a whole skill to itself. A whole world. A whole universe to itself. Me love it because you have to be skilful to play it! Freedom! Football is freedom.
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There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.
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If you play football, that’s what you dream of, winning a Super Bowl. We were close. We just didn’t make the plays when we needed to.
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Football is easy, it's not success. To me success is being a world changer. Football is my platform but not my purpose.
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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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A consulting position might work in another profession, but not in pro football. There's no such thing. They give a guy a parking spot and put his name up as a consultant, and in six months, they erase the name.
