Football Quotes - Page 26

• Al journalism should be investigative, from football to cookery

  John Pilger

  Als, Journalism, Should

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• A day without football is a day lost.

  Ernst Happel

  Lost

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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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• The game of business used to be like football: size mattered. Then it changed to basketball: speed and agility. Today, business is more like chess. Customer priorities change continually, and the signals given by these changes are vital clues to the next cycle of growth.

  Adrian Slywotzky

  Basketball, Games, Priorities

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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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• I come from a generation where I couldn't even contemplate such a thing. I find it amazing... You can become a multi-millionaire as a club player without playing international football. But international football is about individual pride and wanting to perform at the highest level. If I got picked at 41, I would have played, even if I thought I would make a fool of myself. I just wanted to play for my country.

  Trevor Brooking

  Country, Pride, Player

  "Reports of Peter Crouch England retirement amaze Sir Trevor Brooking". www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2011.

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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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• Mourinho is a coach of titles, not football. Or rather, not a football coach if we understand the sport is a spectacle or entertainment for those who watch it, either at home or live in the stadium.

  Johan Cruijff

  Sports, Home, Titles

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

  Stephen Colbert

  Bowls

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I don't think there is any place in football for drinking. I have said on several occasions to players: You don't put diesel in a Ferrari.

  Harry Redknapp

  Drinking, Player, Thinking

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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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• I take football as an avenue to different opportunities. Football is not using me; I'm using football.

  Adrian Peterson

  Opportunity, Different, Using Me

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