Football Quotes - Page 25

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

  Chris Zylka

  Sports, Art, Form

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  David Pleat

  Biscuits, Sometimes, Fortune

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• One of these days, someone smarter and younger and more articulate than I is going to get through to the American people just how really messed up the federal government has become. And when that happens, the American people are going to rise up like that football crowd in Cleveland and run both teams off the field.

  Zell Miller

  Running, Team, Government

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• When I was in Dutch and Italian football, a lot of people looked at Manchester United, and when they were asked who was the best player, a lot of them said Paul Scholes. Much of what he did looked simple, but actually it was quite hard. Invariably he controlled the ball instantly and passed it straight on, keeping the game moving. He made inch-perfect passes across the pitch; he saw the gaps and could play the ball through them. So it didn't surprise me that so many top-class international footballers recognized his quality.

  Edwin van der Sar

  Moving, Simple, Player

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• Scholes was England's best football player. It was impossible to take the ball from him, and he never mishit a pass.

  Sven-Goran Eriksson

  Player, England, Balls

  "Sven: My Story". Book by Sven-Göran Eriksson, www.telegraph.co.uk. 2013.

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• Funnily enough we have never had one enquiry for Paul Scholes. You know why? Because they all know he will never leave. in my time he would be in the top six or seven (best United players ever) without a doubt. His contribution and quality have been great, even without the fantastic goals he has scored. [ . . . ] He has that wonderful velvet touch on the ball. When he gets it, it goes stone dead. It is wonderful to see that amidst all the mayhem that can happen in a football match.

  Alex Ferguson

  Player, Goal, Doubt

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• I've still got Paul Scholes' shirt at home which I swapped with him once. When I was at Liverpool he was one of the players I liked most. Maybe he's not valued as much as he should be in England because of the style of football there and because he keeps a low profile. Perhaps he would have been more valued in Spain, where midfielders like him form part of the 'ideal.' Fans in Spain rate him very highly and I admire him a huge amount.

  Xabi Alonso

  Home, Player, Style

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think (fantasy football) has become something that needs to be looked at in terms of regulation. Effectively, it's day trading without any regulation at all. When you have insider information, which has apparently been the case, when you have people who use that information, use big data to try and take advantage of it, there has to be some regulation. If they can't regulate themselves, then the NFL needs to look at moving away from them a little bit, and there should be some regulation.

  Jeb Bush

  Moving, Thinking, Nfl

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• There's a special part of Messi's brain allowing him to see the split-second chaos of football in his own personal super slow motion.

  Carles Puyol

  Brain, Special, Messi

  "Time flies: Lionel Messi marks 10th anniversary of his Barcelona debut". m.espn.com. October 14, 2014.

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• Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  College, Needs, Vanderbilt

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• Rock bands are a lot like football teams: If a guy is on drugs and messes up, get someone else who's proud to wear the uniform and be part of the team.

  Gene Simmons

  Team, Rocks, Guy

  "Gene Simmons: 'I Don’t Like Handlers’". Interview with Carla Hay, sleazeroxx.com. June 6, 2004.

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• Some if it may seem hokey to some people, but if you traveled where I've traveled, done what I've done and seen the results that I've been getting, then you understand where I'm coming from. Playing in a football game is like being in 30-40 car accidents. You can find yourself in awkward positions. That stuff takes its toll. But if you take advantage of health care, balance your body back out, put it back where its supposed to be, you function better, and you recover faster.

  Emmitt Smith

  Games, Car, People

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• Football is about making mistakes. Who makes the most, loses the game.

  Johan Cruijff

  Mistake, Games, Loses

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• You come here to Anfield, you stand there and listen to that crowd, and it's the greatest sight in football.

  Harry Redknapp

  Sight, Anfield, Crowds

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• People love a player with ideas, because at the end of the day, the crowd want to be entertained. And with football being only a game, it has to be enjoyable too.

  Ernst Happel

  Player, Games, Ideas

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• Nelson Mandela is my hero outside of football. I was fortunate enough to meet him a couple of times. He was really clued up on his football and he knew me, so that was just unbelievable. It really stuck with me.

  Ryan Giggs

  Couple, Hero, Enough

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• Al journalism should be investigative, from football to cookery

  John Pilger

  Als, Journalism, Should

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• The bacillus of efficiency has also attacked football, and some dare to ask what's the point in playing well. I feel tempted to tell about the time they dared to ask Borges what is poetry for, to which he answered: 'What is a sunrise for? What are caresses for? What is the smell of coffee for?'

  Jorge Valdano

  Coffee, Smell, Sunrise

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• My shooting technique is so poor that if someday I score from outside the box, the keeper has to be banned from football.

  Dada Maravilha

  Technique, Shooting, Someday

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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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• 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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