Football Quotes
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I'm watching a lot of the football.
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For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Football's place is to add a patina of character, a deference to the rules and a respect for authority.
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I could've kept playing, but football didn't define me.
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That Monday after we lost to Washington, that's when everything hit the fan. But instead of succumbing to the environment at that particular time, it was more or less, 'What are we going to do to make this thing turn around?' We decided we had a lot more football to play, and what a story it would be if we turned it around and made the playoffs. And we did just that.
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I would never describe football as a job because it doesn't feel like a job.
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There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.
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I like the Premier League I lot. I feel it has my style of football.
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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.
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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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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 football is a team sport.
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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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Thank you... preseason football, for having all the excitement, commercials, and time-outs of the regular season, but with none of the mattering. I appreciate it. Thank you.
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When it comes to football, God is prejudiced - toward big, fast kids.
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In the end, for me, football is still a game. Even if you are a professional, you need to have fun when you are on the field. If you don't enjoy your job, you don't have fun.
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You made it something special. Most of all, I want to thank the fans for your support not through the great times that we shared on the football field, but for the last 17 years of my life. You have supported me through all times.
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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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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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In football, as in politics, resilience pays off.
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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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I don't think some of the people who come to Old Trafford can spell football, never mind understand it.
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I love you more than the pool hall, but not as much as football.
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That's where the challenge has been. Balancing football and life. Trying not to replay every play in my head while I'm with my family. Sometimes, I've done it well. Other times, I haven't.
