Football Player Quotes - Page 5

• As a football player, you're really an actor. I spent all Sunday getting into character. Sunday at 10 a.m., I have to be upset with someone who didn't do anything to me. By 11 a.m. I have to be angry. And by noon, I have to be furious.

  Thomas Jones

  Football, Character, Sunday

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• When I was growing up in Baltimore, the Colts were not just a team that played in the city. It was part of the city. Football players didn't make close to the money they make today and most took jobs in the off-season. Some were mechanics, others worked at furniture stores, and you could find them drinking at a neighborhood watering hole.

  Barry Levinson

  Football, Jobs, Growing Up

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• I think if you're a good high school player that you have the ability to be a good college football player. If you're a good college football then you have the ability to be a great NFL player.

  Robert Griffin III

  Football, School, Player

  "Robert Griffin III Prepares For NFL Draft, Talks Peyton Manning From Super Bowl 2012" By Chris Greenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2012.

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• The open side Defensive End has to be one of your best football players. Size does not matter as much. We want an athletic player who can move around.

  Pete Carroll

  Football, Moving, Player

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• Theres something incredible about putting a helmet on just before a game; its a feeling only a football player knows. Your vision narrows, and the whole world shrinks. You cant hear much of what goes on outside you, but you can hear yourself breathe and you can feel yourself sweat.

  Carl Deuker

  Football, Player, Sweat

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• Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull.

  Steve Sabol

  Football, Player, Games

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.

  Warren Moon

  Football, Athlete, Player

  "Sorry, Charles, but NBA stars couldn't cut it". Interview with Mike Sando, www.espn.com. May 29, 2013.

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• I identified myself through football so when Jason Peter the football player no longer existed, Jason Peter the person was gone as well. Such a huge part of my struggle in life was finding a purpose, trying to find something else that I could be great at.

  Jason Peter

  Football, Struggle, Player

  Interview with Husker Faithful, bleacherreport.com. August 14, 2008.

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• I was a football player at college and dislocated my thumb. I was out for a bit and passed the theatre and saw some lovely drama students walking into an audition for 'Much Ado About Nothing' and thought: 'That's what I'll do when I recover.' I joined that production and was hooked.

  Clark Gregg

  Football, Drama, Player

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• He is a very complete, spectacular footballer. He always fights for the ball and tries to lose his marker to help his team-mates - either to defend or to have a shot on goal. For any football player in the Premiership, Scholes is a player you want to emulate. I would happily end my career with the medals that Scholes has. I am young and I hope that I will be able to surpass him - but it is not going to be easy.

  Cesc Fabregas

  Football, Team, Fighting

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• The only thing I want to be able to do is come in and learn the offense, go out there and compete, show what I am capable of doing and try to get better as a football player.

  Brian Griese

  Sports, Football, Player

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• I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor.

  Herschel Walker

  Sports, Football, Dream

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• So [Polaroid's Dr. Edwin] Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack the code of color vision. The man is a national treasure. I don't understand why people like that can't be held up as models: This is the most incredible thing to be - not an astronaut, not a football player - but this.

  Steve Jobs

  Football, Player, Men

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• I'm not the prototype wide receiver. But I like to think I'm one hell of a football player.

  Hines Ward

  Football, Player, Thinking

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• I play football, and most football players are camera shy. We just want to be left alone; we just want to stick to what we do.

  Reggie Bush

  Football, Player, Cameras

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• Scholes was England's best football player. It was impossible to take the ball from him, and he never mishit a pass.

  Sven-Goran Eriksson

  Football, Player, England

  "Sven: My Story". Book by Sven-Göran Eriksson, www.telegraph.co.uk. 2013.

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• Making the effort to improve as a human being is what Coach Lombardi was all about. He was able to see the gap between where we were and what we could become-both as football players and as people. And he felt it was his God-given responsibility to close that gap.

  Jerry Kramer

  Football, Responsibility, Player

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• I was a football player. I liked it a lot...unfortunately that's where I first wrecked my knees. Playing high school football, getting cut across the knees. They haven't healed since. Back then they didn't have the surgery techniques that they have now.

  Mark Mendoza

  Football, School, Cutting

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• Wrestlers are a bunch of wanna-be football players.

  Brian Bosworth

  Football, Player, Bunch

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• My favorite sports novel is End Zone by Delillo. It's such a great looking book too, the black cover with the football player on it. It's just a fantastic little book.

  Chad Harbach

  Sports, Football, Book

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Jim Thorpe is someone I've always loved. He was an Olympic athlete, you know, and a football player from back in the day. I'd love to play him. And then there's a guy called Iceman who was a top hit man for the mob. I would love to play him. Actually, it's sort of in the works, so I hope it goes through.

  Channing Tatum

  Football, Athlete, Player

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• Someone on Twitter sent me a page from a textbook. It had a picture of a football player next to a picture of me. The juxtaposition was meant to illustrate two meanings of "offensive." Seriously. It broke my heart. It's that accepted what I do is offensive?

  Sarah Silverman

  Football, Heart, Player

  "Comedian Sarah Silverman". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.mrt.com. March 27, 2011.

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• As a former football player who has carried a football more than 4,000 times, trust me, I did not go into ballroom dancing with my body being 100 percent, with no aches or pains or ailments coming with me. When you're dancing, you're doing stuff that your body's not used to, and so you start to aggravate those old injuries.

  Emmitt Smith

  Football, Pain, Player

  "Q&A: Emmitt Smith on Dancing with the Stars". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. October 8, 2012.

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• I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success.

  Gregoire Akcelrod

  Football, Hard Work, Player

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.

  Luis Figo

  Football, Fighting, Player

  "The first galactico" by John Carlin, January 18, 2004.

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