Football Quotes
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There's no similarity between football and ballet, so this ain't ballet music being played on the field. I'm pumping something that's going to put me in a frame of mind to go to war, and something that's very high tempo and high beat.
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I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys.
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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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Once I decided football was the way for me, there was no looking back. Nothing was going to distract me.
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I learned as a mascot that rules don't really apply to you. As long as you don't go crazy with that. You want to go be the 12th man on a football play, they might have an objection, but otherwise, if you stay out of the way of the game, you can do most anything.
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I played football growing up in junior high and high school.
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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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Compare the credit for a football touchdown, which might be shared by the receiver not only with the quarterback, but also with the linesmen who make crucial protective plays, etc. The success of the touchdown play depends on the receiver, it is true; but in a particular case it might depend far more on the work of others.
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I played football the only way I knew. If you have the football and 11 guys are after you - if you're smart - you'll run. It was no big deal.
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I used to play football, and then my wife bought me a fishing rod.
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In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.
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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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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'm in love with college football. I have such a blast with it.
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We have played a very good side, playing at the sort of level we are aspiring to. We need to come up a couple of levels ourselves because at the moment we are not there.
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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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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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A lot of stuff's going to happen in a football career that you don't like.
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I used to go play football matches in the morning, and Id go straight from me football game to a dance competition.
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Spanish football is very good but every year the same teams win the league.
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I would play football, because I love it.
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I've got a great life that I really enjoy. But there is something chewing at me inside: that adrenaline rush from football, I miss that.
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How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero.
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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.
