Football Quotes - Page 24

• I'm a guy here to play football. I'm not here for photos or newspapers or TV shows or trophies or awards. I'm not into all that.

  Randy Moss

  Awards, Tv Shows, Play

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• Too often girls accept that of course the boys will get better lighting and seating at their sports events, of course the football team will get more attention, privileges, and space in the yearbook. We need to teach girls to look around and notice when they're being treated like second-class citizens, and then to insist on equal treatment.

  Mariah Nelson

  Girl, Sports, Team

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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, School

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• That's where the challenge has been. Balancing football and life. Trying not to replay every play in my head while I'm with my family. Sometimes, I've done it well. Other times, I haven't.

  Chad Pennington

  Play, Challenges, Trying

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• I'm a selfish football player. Each time the ball is snapped, I tell myself that I want to make that tackle, make that big play.

  Jevon Kearse

  Selfish, Player, Balls

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• I don't take a day off. I don't slack. All I know is hard-nose football. There ain't no breaks or vacations for me.

  Corey Dillon

  Vacation, Days Off, Noses

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• It was fun, having speed and being able to jump. Especially playing football. I played wide receiver and defensive back.

  Jacoby Ellsbury

  Fun, Able, Speed

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• Kicking the football and the soccer ball is all the same, just a different shape, like an egg. It doesn't make any difference.

  Sebastian Janikowski

  Soccer, Eggs, Differences

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• I want to be a top-flight football player, so I lead the life that enables me to be that type of player. I prefer to be seen in a decent light rather than an indecent one.

  Michael Owen

  Player, Light, Want

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• I love Thanksgiving. I truly do. Every last thing about it is wonderful. I love getting together with family and friends. I love the meal. I love the football. I love the four-day weekend without having anything that particularly has to get done. And of course, I love the fundamental idea behind it-giving thanks for all the good people and good things in your life.

  Bill Richardson

  Weekend, Ideas, Giving

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• There's more to me than football. It's just part of my life.

  Chad Pennington

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• After the game, I'm a completely different person. I drink some beers with friends and try to get my mind completely off football.

  Jeremy Shockey

  Beer, Games, Mind

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• I approach football like a street-ball game, like I'm playing with the fellas in the yard.

  Simeon Rice

  Games, Yards, Balls

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• Cristiano Ronaldo is the best player in the Premier League and in the whole of Europe.
  The things I have seen him do since I have been in Manchester have been incredible, amazing.
  It is just like a total show in training and even in the matches.
  This kid will one day arrive at the very top in the world of football - if he isn't there already - because he makes the most difficult plays look easy.

  Henrik Larsson

  Kids, Cristiano Ronaldo, Player

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• Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you're a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you're going to get at it. Acting's no different.

  Tom Sizemore

  Writing, Play, People

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• Thomas Gravesen thinks he's broke his hand, but I told him that you play football with your feet and not your hand.

  Gordon Strachan

  Thinking, Hands, Play

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• Peter Crouch, the Marmite of football.

  Derek Rae

  Peter, Marmite

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• They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.

  Bear Bryant

  Losing, Teach, Brutal

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• Football can generate excitement and bring people together.

  Didier Drogba

  People, Together, Excitement

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• There's never been completion in my football career because I've always been striving for that next thing.

  Ryan Giggs

  Careers, Next, Strive

  "EXCLUSIVE: When Gary met Ryan... 'I've never, ever experienced a shock like that on the football pitch,' says Giggs on United's Champions League exit". Interview with Gary Neville, www.dailymail.co.uk. March 9, 2013.

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• God made certain people to play football. He was one of them.

  Joe Gibbs

  Play, People, Made

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• Over the four years we have made massive progress: winning the League Championship (97/98); building the largest club stadium in the UK (60,000 seats); having the largest support (52,000 season book holders) of any club in Britain. This has been achieved by everyone who cares about Celtic working together towards a shared vision of football success and pride in a club which is part of our culture, open to all and a responsible member of the community working to help others where it can.

  Fergus McCann

  Book, Pride, Helping Others

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• My dad was a college football coach, so we're a big athletic family. I was either going to be an athlete or an actor. As an actor, I hoped I would be able to bond the two.

  Matt Barr

  Dad, Athlete, College

  Source: collider.com

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• Football is an art form in itself. All sports are.

  Chris Zylka

  Sports, Art, Form

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You know sometimes football turns on the slightest biscuit of good fortune.

  David Pleat

  Biscuits, Sometimes, Fortune

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