Football Quotes - Page 17

• There's more to distract people, isn't there? When I was a kid there was music and football and clothes. And that was kind of it, really. Those three things defined you as a person.

  Paul Weller

  Kids, Clothes, People

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• You're going to have injuries, danger and glory in every sport. What makes football unique is that every person on that team needs to count on everybody else. It's the ultimate team game and you have to depend on your coaches, you have to depend on your support staff, you have to depend on your teammates.

  Tim Tebow

  Sports, Team, Unique

  Source: espn.go.com

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• I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.

  Joe Namath

  Baseball, Player, Thinking

  "Playboy's Candid Conversation With The Superswinger QB, Joe Namath". thestacks.deadspin.com. September 5, 2013.

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• My favorite football team is the Bears because my favorite player is on there, Devin Hester. I love the whole team, though. But that's just my favorite player.

  Jacob Latimore

  Team, Player, Bears

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• We might have the worst bunch of guys together we've ever seen as a football team. I don't know what anybody else has, but I'd trade mine with anybody, sight unseen.

  Buddy Ryan

  Team, Sight, Guy

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• I'm very about football and very about my job, which doesn't get reported or won't get reported, but I am going to enjoy my time off. That's I think what everybody else does, and that's what I should do.

  Johnny Manziel

  Jobs, Thinking, Doe

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• There's just a big, empty football field that's supposed to be filled with monsters that I haven't even thought of.

  Rob Letterman

  Monsters, Fields, Empty

  Source: collider.com

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• I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk.

  Barry Goldwater

  Basketball, Baseball, Swim

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• Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Education, Years, Preparation

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• Football is a simple game. It's just very hard to play it simple.

  Johan Cruijff

  Soccer, Simple, Games

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• We have demonstrated that we are the best, I'm also happy because everyone seems to enjoy our football, whether or not they are Barca fans. All over the world, I've heard people saying that they have been enchanted by us. This type of football deserves to be rewarded with titles.

  Lionel Messi

  Soccer, People, World

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• I've gotten to watch a lot of football games. Growing up, watching sports, watching people compete, whether it's my brothers or teammates. I grew up observing and taking it all in. It's kind of my attitude.

  Eli Manning

  Sports, Brother, Growing Up

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• Anybody who knows me knows I'm passionate about American football. I gave this game everything I had. In college, that's what I looked to do. Everything. Everything for so long, and all you hear growing up is that hard work pays off, hard work pays off, hard work pays off.

  La'el Collins

  Growing Up, Hard Work, College

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Baseball is not like football, basketball where a momentum is something made. You don't really have that kind of momentum in baseball.

  William C. Rhoden

  Basketball, Baseball, Momentum

  "Sports Update: Kobe Drama". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. October 18, 2007.

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• One single great player doesn't make anything for a team; it has to be a team. I think [American] football is the greatest team sport there is because you have to depend on your brother next to you.

  Tim Tebow

  Sports, Brother, Team

  Source: espn.go.com

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• I hate perception. There's far too much of it in football

  Sam Allardyce

  Hate, Perception, Too Much

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• There are visible and invisible dictators. The power structure of world football is monarchical. It's the most secret kingdom in the world.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Secret, World, Kingdoms

  "Throw FIFA Out of the Game" by Dave Zirin, www.nytimes.com. June 6, 2014.

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• I like to read the papers. I make my living from football, and I like to know what's going on.

  Xavi

  Paper, Papers, Knows

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• If you dont live, eat, breathe, football, then youre not a true football player. You just wear the jersey.

  Sergio Ramos

  Player, Jersey, Breathe

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

  Simone Elkeles

  Player, Thinking, People

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• Football is the No. 1 sport in America.

  Michael Ovitz

  Sports, America

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• I was just different. When the other kids gravitated to football or basketball I went fishing and skating. I was into trapping animals, pheasants and squirrels. Not only was I trapper. I was a taxidermist.

  Gene Pitney

  Basketball, Kids, Animal

  "Life after Tulsa". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2003.

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• Football is a violent game. We are violent men.

  Will Shields

  Men, Games, Violent Man

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• Jonny Evans plays sort of international football with Northern Ireland

  Phil Thompson

  Play, Northern Ireland, International

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• Messi is much more than being clever. He is a genius who reserves all his expressiveness for football.

  John Carlin

  Clever, Messi, Genius

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