Football Quotes
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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.
Chad Pennington
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But I am very confident that David Pleat, the director of football or whatever his title is now days - I am very confident that he, with all his media commitments around the world, knows the market place.
Billy Davies
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Every day I've got to get up and make a decision. I have an opportunity every day to affect young men and the coaches that are around me, the entire organization and the entire community.
Mike Singletary
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Football is a game. It's something I love to do. But there are so many things in life that are more important.
Virgil van Dijk
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I understand my name is being mentioned in connection with job openings in the National Football League, but I want to re-iterate my commitment to the University of Louisville, our players and all of our Cardinal fans. The University of Louisville has been great for me, and family and I'm committed to fulfilling our goal of taking the program to the next level.
Bobby Petrino
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I can understand that people are not happy, but they should not use football to make their demands heard
Sepp Blatter
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I have a lot of great players around me. I have the best O-line in football. It's what's expected.
Ezekiel Elliott
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Before we can talk about a championship, we have to practice like a championship team.
Mike Singletary
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I was always interested in acting, but in my high school sports was the cool thing to be part of, and I was still very into being cool. So I played a lot of basketball and football. But I always had that want to be in theater and to be a part of theater arts. But in my school, it was just a really nerdy thing to be a part of. Everyone in my school wore bowler hats - they were always on, always acting, and all so big. I was like, "I can't be that", even though I wanted to be.
Cedric Yarbrough
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What makes him special? He has a mixture of physical talent and technical ability, as well as remarkable intelligence and above all a great passion for the game.
Arsene Wenger
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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.
Roy Keane
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It's everything to me. This is my life. I love football so much.
Austin Seferian-Jenkins
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Football is the No. 1 sport in America.
Michael Ovitz
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I was so obsessed with football that you could say I was taking the goal home with me at night. And then one day the system fell apart.
Oliver Kahn
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If you don't go out there and play winning football, they're going to try and find somebody who can.
Alex Smith
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If football had always been my main goal then I would have gone to some scholarship school; I could have gotten more exposure there.
Michael Corbat
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It's never been about football, but about becoming the best and fullest person I could be. And to think that I went from the kid with a GPA in the basement to going to college on a football scholarship-I was thankful and humbled by how far I'd come in just a few years. I knew that miracles really do happen.
Michael Oher
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That's what changed the football fortunes of this franchise. It was huge, ... He sent a message to the rest of the NFL that Green Bay was a great place to play.
Bob Harlan
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My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best.
Rickey Henderson
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As long as you've got serious investors who wish to put money into football, I applaud. It proves that football is attractive. What upsets me, what I find scandalous is when clubs accept fools.
Sepp Blatter
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You know, I stopped being competitive after I played football.
Isaiah Mustafa
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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.
Jose Mourinho
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I'd done some acting in high school. Then I went to Kenyon College and got thrown in jail and kicked off the football team. Since I was determined not to study very much, I majored in theater the last two years. Got my degree in speech; they didn't actually have a degree in theater. I graduated at two o'clock in the afternoon, and at three-thirty I was on the train for Williams Bay, Wisconsin, for summer stock, and then I did winter stock.
Paul Newman
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The statistics John Wesson has compiled in The Science of Soccer show that Premiership football players are vastly more likely to have been born in the first half of the school year. These were the biggest boys in the class and were thus selected for the school team. How fair is that?
Daniel Finkelstein