Football Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• Football is American; why are the Romans numering our bowls?!

  Stephen Colbert

  Bowls

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• Any man who watches more than three consecutive football games on TV in one day can be declared legally dead.

  Joyce Brothers

  Men, Games, One Day

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• Making the effort to improve as a human being is what Coach Lombardi was all about. He was able to see the gap between where we were and what we could become-both as football players and as people. And he felt it was his God-given responsibility to close that gap.

  Jerry Kramer

  Responsibility, Player, People

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• Best football player I played against? I think Messi. He killed us.

  Rafael van der Vaart

  Player, Thinking, Messi

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• Messi makes the difference most of the time. In particular, he is always going forwards. He never passes the ball backwards or sideways. He has only one idea, to run towards the goal.So as a football fan, just enjoy the show.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Running, Ideas, Differences

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• For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is role model for children around the world.

  Johan Cruijff

  Children, Role Models, Messi

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• I think now Messi is probably done more than most players. But he is in the same class as Alfredo de Stefano, Johan Cruyff, Pelé. When he finishes and he retires, he will automatically become one of them. A player that people will talk about forever, while the game of football is as good and as popular as it is. He is a sensational player.

  Bobby Charlton

  Player, Thinking, Games

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• Messi is the real deal when it comes to Number 10s. He represents a type of football that transcends borders.

  Alessandro Del Piero

  Real, Numbers, Messi

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• In life or in football, touchdowns rarely take place in seventy yard increments. Usually it's three yards and a cloud of dust.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dust, Clouds, Three

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• If I ever get the chance to do a football movie, that would be a dream come true.

  Manny Montana

  Dream, Would Be, Chance

  Source: collider.com

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• While American football is very structured and linear and static, where everyone lines up and there's a burst and it happens, soccer is like the cosmos. It's like constellations. It's bodies moving in space. It's a very spherical game. You can move in any direction, at any time.

  Gabriel Luna

  Soccer, Moving, Games

  Source: collider.com

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• Agents are nasty scum. They're evil and divisive and pointless. They only survive because the rest of the sport is so corrupt and because leading football club people employ their sons in the job.

  Simon Jordan

  Sports, Jobs, Son

  "Rommedahl rewards Charlton's patience" by Jon Brodkin, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2004.

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• Much of modern liberalism consists of people trying to get revenge on the football players they felt inferior to in school.

  Steve Sailer

  Revenge, School, Player

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• Football and gambling - two great American addictions working together. What could possibly go wrong?

  Froma Harrop

  Two, Gambling, Addiction

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• If you said, 'What is the most important aspect of winning football games?' I don't think I could give you an answer to that question.

  Cris Collinsworth

  Winning, Thinking, Games

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• A police reporter walks into the worst moment in someone's life on every single story that he covers. It's not like being a sports reporter. That's a great job and all that and takes certain skills. But, you know, they're glad to see you when you show up to cover the football game. Nobody is ever glad to see a police reporter when he shows up.

  Bob Schieffer

  Sports, Jobs, Worst Moments

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• The only place where we're not segregated in mass is in sports. You go to a football stadium or a basketball arena, and all of America is there: the wealthy, the poor, the black, white, Latino, conservative, liberal, and we all talk about sports.

  Jason Whitlock

  Basketball, Sports, White

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• If every university president said, 'The revenue producing sports: basketball, football - potentially revenue producing at most universities - maybe in a few cases women's basketball, if every one of them had a monitor that reported directly to the university president and no 'student-athlete' ever gets into this college or university who could not plausibly be admitted if we did not have a football or basketball team, end of problem. It won't happen because it's like unilaterally disarming. You know your opponent won't do it and then you'll get crushed in every game, but it's a simple thing.

  Bob Costas

  Basketball, Sports, Team

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• There is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in winning a game that by all odds one should lose...There has indeed been a surrender at Notre Dame, but it is a surrender to excellence on all fronts, and in this we hope to rise above ourselves with the help of God.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Winning, Games, Odds

  "The Facts Of The Matter". Sports Illustrated, January 19, 1959.

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• College football is no more of a minor league than, say, the universities' schools of journalism, engineering or music are. We can argue at another time whether football should occupy the same space on campus as those disciplines, but for now, it does. The critical point is that a coach is less concerned with preparing athletes for the next level than he is with molding them to fit a system that helps him win games, keep his job and, eventually, move on to a position with a more prestigious program.

  William C. Rhoden

  Jobs, Moving, Athlete

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• I got into moisturiser when I played football. If you're out in all weathers you have to take care of your face.

  Vinnie Jones

  Weather, Care, Faces

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• Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

  Robert Frost

  Sports, Thinking, Play

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• Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.

  Billy Connolly

  Team, Scotland, Doe

  "Billy Connolly". Book by Nigel Huddleston, June 2004.

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• Football changes and so do people.

  Bear Bryant

  People

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