Football Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• 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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• I love football. I really love football, As far as I'm concerned, it's the second best thing in the world.

  Joe Namath

  World, Second Best, Concerned

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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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• If you play football, theres going to be a 100 percent injury rate. Something is going to be bothering you. So I just try to focus on the things that I can do to help my team.

  Larry Fitzgerald

  Team, Bothering You, Play

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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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• 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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• Jonny Evans plays sort of international football with Northern Ireland

  Phil Thompson

  Play, Northern Ireland, International

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• When I'm done playing football, I just might be the couch potato dad.

  Troy Polamalu

  Dad, Done, Might

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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

  Player, Games, People

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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

  Stars, Player, People

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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

  Long, Upset, Wish

  "Sepp Blatter interview: The FIFA president on Qatar, Brazil and billionaire owners". Interview with Philippe Auclair, www.mirror.co.uk. September 22, 2013.

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• The World Cup must remain the number one competition, because it is our only source of money and, with that money, we can develop football in the whole world.

  Sepp Blatter

  Numbers, Competition, World

  "Sepp Blatter interview: The FIFA president on Qatar, Brazil and billionaire owners". Interview with Philippe Auclair, www.mirror.co.uk. September 22, 2013.

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• Professional football's a tough game. It's a lot of contact. It's a lot of wear and tear on your body. You've got elite athletes running into each other, play after play, at high speeds. And this is something that I love and I enjoy.

  John Urschel

  Running, Athlete, Games

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Football has to work really hard to put a smile on peoples face and not to be so focused on the question of money. Everything is in danger of losing its soul if youre always going to sell out to the highest bidder.

  Gordon Taylor

  Soul, Faces, Losing

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• Everything I do I always feel very confident. Whether it's tennis, badminton, football, whatever. I just go out there and think I can do it and most of the time I can. What I'm good at I don't mind saying because it's not a secret, is it? For me confidence is so important. It's good to know I can go out on the field and feel I can take on the world.

  Nicklas Bendtner

  Thinking, Tennis, Secret

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• Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Exercise, Fighting, Practice

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• Listen to the women. Women say exactly what they want. Who has concrete plans - not macroeconomics but kitchen table economics. Who will change the situation for their families, and help restore the middle class. Women are also sick to death of having their bodies and their lives treated as a political football.

  Celinda Lake

  Class, Sick, Political

  "Women Are the Deciders, But for Which Candidate? An Interview With Pollster Celinda Lake". Interview with Martha Burk, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2012.

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• I love sports. I was an athlete in high school, and my school was so small we didn't have a football team, so it's the one sport I didn't bother to learn the rules to because I never went to game.

  Katie Aselton

  Sports, Team, Athlete

  "A 'League' of Her Own: Actress Katie Aselton Says Yes, Women Can Be Sexy, Smart, and Talk About Football". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. August 29, 2013.

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• Football today is far too much a sport for the few who can play it well; the rest of us, and too many of our children, get out exercise from climbing up the seats in stadiums, or from walking across the room to turn on our television sets.

  John F. Kennedy

  Sports, Children, Exercise

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• I like the fans, but I don't feel an obligation that I have to be an example to them, like say maybe a baseball player would, or a football player or maybe some other type of musicians. I don't feel I have to really set an example that somebody else has to live up to.

  Bob Dylan

  Baseball, Player, Musician

  Source: www.rightwingbob.com

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