Football Player Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• 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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• People who are following their dreams inspire me. I train at this relatively new gym in West Hollywood called Training Mate. It's owned by a former Australian football player named Luke Milton. The classes are mostly taught by other Australians that are just like Luke: fit, funny, cute, and approachable. Now they're talking about opening another location. He will open another location and be successful because he's following his dream. People like him inspire me because they make me think I can do it too.

  Dayna Devon

  Cute, Dream, Football

  "Fashion designer Dayna Devon: Pursuing new passions and plugging into mindfulness". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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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• 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 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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• 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 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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• 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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• When I look back on when I grew up, not even football players lifted weights. That was back 50 years ago.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Football, Player, Years

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• Football players are misunderstood. They arent the dumb jocks people think they are.

  Simone Elkeles

  Football, Player, Thinking

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• As a football player, you just deal with injuries. It's all part of the football game. I've dealt with injuries as much as everybody else. People have dealt with worse injuries than I've dealt with. It's all part of the game, all part of getting that tackle.

  Troy Polamalu

  Football, Player, Games

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• Everywhere I go now, people are like, 'That's the guy from 'Dancing With the Stars!'' It's pretty good that you're not just a football player but you're in the entertainment world.

  Donald Driver

  Football, Stars, Player

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• 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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• For some reason as a kid growing up in Lubbock, Texas, I always thought I was going to go to UCLA. I think it was because they had such great sports teams, and it was in California, where the actors were. But even though I was talking about being an actor when I was young, I was first going to be a football player. My dream was "I'm going to go to UCLA and be a football player."

  Brad Leland

  Sports, Dream, Football

  Source: www.avclub.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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• When I was nine years, growing up on the south side of Chicago, in the ghetto. The Robert Taylor Projects. I came home from school, I showed my mother a picture and said "Momma, that's you in the rocking chair. There's daddy over there." I said, "Momma, one of these days, I'm gonna be big and strong. I'm gonna be a football player. I'm gonna be a boxer. I'm gonna buy you a beautiful house and I'm gonna buy you pretty dresses." That's all I want to do in life.

  Mr. T

  Beautiful, Football, Mother

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• When spectators and fans say about drunken brawls, violence, and dog fights, "Well, football players are prone to these things - that's why we admire them," they are encouraging terribly detrimental behavior. You might even say - a la Roman gladiators - they are egging on this behavior.

  Stanton Peele

  Football, Dog, Fighting

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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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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• I was a football player and competitor in life.

  Bill Goldberg

  Football, Player, Competitors

  Source: www.oklafan.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.

  Hillary Clinton

  Football, Brother, Father

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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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