Football Quotes - Page 22

• There weren't sidewalks to skateboard on and malls to hang out in. There wasn't anything to do. And I was too scrawny to play football, and so I decided I was just gonna sit at the piano, because it made more sense.

  John Fullbright

  Play, Piano, Made

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It would be great to not have any injuries and just go out and play football and have fun ... But in life there are adversities, and it all just depends on how you overcome them.

  Donovan McNabb

  Fun, Adversity, Play

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• I write what I like to write. Those who like to listen to it, listen to it. And the ones who don't, watch football and drink beer, jog, go to discos and so forth. I never claimed to be a man for all seasons.

  Frank Zappa

  Writing, Beer, Men

  Interview with Dave Rothman in Oui Magazine, April 1979.

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• I'm not pro-life, and I'm not pro-choice. I'm pro-football.

  Kinky Friedman

  Choices, Pro Life, Pro Football

  "Live From..." with Kyra Phillips and Miles O'Brien, www.cnn.com. February 3, 2005.

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• I was awful at football when I was a little kid. I didn't have the aggressiveness. I was just a nice kid. I didn't want to hurt anyone.

  Tony Gonzalez

  Hurt, Nice, Kids

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• When I was a kid, I'd watch pro football on TV and I'd see someone make a play and I'd say, 'I wish that could be me.' But then I'd have to wonder, 'Could I make that big play?'

  Terrell Owens

  Kids, Play, Wish

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• I love football. I'll watch the NFL before I watch any NBA.

  Dwyane Wade

  Nba, Nfl, Watches

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• Football is my job, not my life, but it's a job I'm going to give my all for as long as I'm in it.

  Ricky Williams

  Jobs, Long, Giving

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• Tight end is one of the hardest positions to play in football. It's right up there with quarterback and cornerback. You have to have the skills of a wide receiver and the strength of an offensive lineman, and it's not easy to balance those two.

  Tony Gonzalez

  Play, Skills, Two

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• I love football. The games are a pure rush. By the time I'm done playing, I want to be among the best tight ends ever to play the game.

  Tony Gonzalez

  Games, Play, Done

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• If football wasn't a part of my life, there were three things that could have happened, and they were all bad. I would have likely been selling drugs, in jail or dead.

  Chad Ochocinco

  Jail, Drug, Three

  Chad Ochocinco, Jason Cole (2009). “Ocho Cinco: What Football and Life Have Thrown My Way”, p.228, Crown Archetype

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• Football is my love. Football is what I'm going to do. I'm a football player first.

  Tony Gonzalez

  Player, Firsts, Football Player

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• In football, you're taught to react by being aggressive, taught to react with violence. If you can't separate that on the field and off the field, you're going to be in a lot of trouble in your life.

  Troy Polamalu

  Fields, Violence, Taught

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• I take pride in my life-my wife, my family. I try my best not to have football define the person that I am.

  Troy Polamalu

  Pride, Wife, Trying

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• America needs football. It's a real blue-collar sport; it's played with a blue-collar mentality, a mentality that's the backbone of this country.

  Troy Polamalu

  Sports, Country, Real

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• I have a great family. I can call them and they don't want to talk just football They want to find out how my day went outside of football.

  Ben Roethlisberger

  Want, Great Family, I Can

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• I know I probably never will win the league MVP or passing title. That is not why I play the game. I try to win football games and championships.

  Ben Roethlisberger

  Winning, Mvp, Games

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• All I have to do is play football now.

  Vince Young

  Play

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• Football is more important to me than money right now.

  A. J. Hawk

  Important, Right Now

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• I really find myself doing a lot better when I'm injured, so sometimes I look forward to it. This is the style that I play-being physical, running the football, making adjustments on the pass, avoiding the rush. Those sorts of things go with the total package of a quarterback.

  Steve McNair

  Running, Play, Style

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• What I try to do is create an energy, create an excitement, but at the same time keep everybody focused and realize it's still just a game, that we have to move the football.

  Joey Harrington

  Moving, Games, Trying

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• Everyone asks me if piano had helped me in football. I guess improvisation and creativity helps on the field, but that's a reach. The two skills are just so different. And, by the way, I get more nervous playing piano.

  Joey Harrington

  Creativity, Skills, Two

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• In baseball, it's tough to get up for every single game, every single moment. In football, you have 90,000 fans screaming and the band's playing. I do miss that adrenaline rush.

  Adam Dunn

  Baseball, Single Mom, Games

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• At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am.

  Adam Dunn

  Baseball, Player, Thinking

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• I love football in the rain. That is what it's all about.

  Brian Urlacher

  Rain, I Love Football

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