Football Player Quotes - Page 7

• People like to focus on a narrow stereotype, like if we didn't have football then we wouldn't have made it, ... The reality is, there are a lot of football players like me who came out of the middle class.

  Jonathan Vilma

  Football, Player, Reality

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• My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.

  Ian McShane

  Soccer, Football, Teacher

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• That makes me think of spandex-covered football players. It's not me. I'm in rhinestones and velvet, not spandex.

  Johnny Weir

  Football, Player, Thinking

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• It's rare to have a best friend who is also your brother and also an NFL football player, and he knows exactly what I'm talking about.

  Eli Manning

  Football, Brother, Player

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• I was not a very good football player when I started out.

  Lynn Swann

  Football, Player, Very Good

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• When you think of me as a football player, I would like for people to think that I put it on the line every time. Good or bad, win or lose, I put it on the line.

  Joe Greene

  Football, Winning, Player

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• As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience off the field.

  John Elway

  Sports, Football, Player

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• Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.

  Bob Lilly

  Football, Player, Years

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• I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.

  Cam Newton

  Football, Player, Icons

  Sports Illustrated Interview, www.theguardian.com. December 27, 2011.

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• I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn't given the liberty to do certain things when I was young.

  Michael Vick

  Football, Player, Games

  "The Impossible, Inevitable Redemption of Michael Vick" by Will Leitch, www.gq.com. August 18, 2011.

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• I led the NFL in attempts the past two years and they really didn’t go out and get a quarterback to help me so I knew it’s going to be all on me again. I could see my mortality as a football player, that I’m not going to be able to do this much longer. It just became obvious to me that playing football for me is not going to be fun, not something I’m going to enjoy and it’s time for me to do something different.

  Ricky Williams

  Football, Fun, Past

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• I'm proud of the fact that besides being known as a successful former football player, I've also worked hard to establish myself as a successful businessman, network broadcaster, sports & entertainment executive and philanthropist.

  Warren Moon

  Sports, Football, Successful

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• My father was an all-American football player.

  Edwin Moses

  Football, Father, Player

  Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. July 1, 2002.

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• Micheal Barrow and Darrin Smith, those guys were really intelligent. They're smart football players. They'd always be a step ahead of the offense and could predict what was coming. Dan Morgan has that. Jonathan Vilma has that. Ray Lewis has that.

  Larry Coker

  Football, Smart, Intelligent

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• Play more than one sport in high school. If you play, say, football and basketball, you can learn to be physical and you can take those physical aspects of both sports and become better in both sports. Basketball players use some of the same skills football players do and vice versa.

  Antonio Gates

  Basketball, Sports, Football

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• There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.

  Pete Hamill

  Football, Country, Player

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• We don't need no more rappers, we don't need no more basketball players, no more football players. We need more thinkers. We need more scientists. We need more managers. We need more mathematicians. We need more teachers. We need more people who care; you know what I'm saying? We need more women, mothers, fathers, we need more of that, we don't need any more entertainers

  Tupac Shakur

  Basketball, Football, Mother

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• Right now, I am a football player and I will sacrifice whatever is necessary to be the best.

  J. J. Watt

  Football, Sacrifice, Player

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• I'm a football player by trade. That's what I do, ... So I did everything I could to make myself a football player again.

  Tedy Bruschi

  Football, Player, Trade

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• Football players win football games.

  Chuck Knox

  Football, Stupid, Winning

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• If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.

  William Petersen

  Sports, Football, Player

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• I'm Michael Sam, I'm a football player, and I'm gay.

  Michael Sam

  Football, Pride, Gay

  "'I'm Michael Sam, I'm an American football player … and I'm gay'". www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2014.

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• I hope people see us not just as a football player, but also as human beings, we are not machines!

  Marco Reus

  Football, Player, People

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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

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• Over the years I've learnt to live with two persons in my heart. One is Edson, who has fun with his friends and family; the other is the football player Pele. I didn't want the name. 'Pele' sounds like baby-talk in Portuguese.

  Pele

  Football, Baby, Fun

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