Football Quotes - Page 28

• Football is a violent game. We are violent men.

  Will Shields

  Men, Games, Violent Man

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• Im a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football - but tougher.

  Alexander Hanson

  Unions, Fans, Rugby

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• As a football player, you just deal with injuries. It's all part of the football game. I've dealt with injuries as much as everybody else. People have dealt with worse injuries than I've dealt with. It's all part of the game, all part of getting that tackle.

  Troy Polamalu

  Player, Games, People

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• I am a National Football League player of American Samoan heritage. Because of my status as a professional athlete, I have been blessed to play a role in educating players and fans about the culture and history of America's southernmost territory.

  Troy Polamalu

  Blessed, Athlete, Player

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• I play American football every Saturday, which I find calming.

  Chad Harbach

  Play, Calming, Saturday

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• What matters to me more than anything is that when all of this is over, football is the winner.

  Sepp Blatter

  What Matters, Matter, Winner

  "Sepp Blatter: Resignation speech in full". www.cnn.com. June 2, 2015.

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• The World Cup must remain the number one competition, because it is our only source of money and, with that money, we can develop football in the whole world.

  Sepp Blatter

  Numbers, Competition, World

  "Sepp Blatter interview: The FIFA president on Qatar, Brazil and billionaire owners". Interview with Philippe Auclair, www.mirror.co.uk. September 22, 2013.

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• I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.

  George Smoot

  School, Track, Juniors

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• To be a Ranger is to sense the sacred trust of upholding all that such a name means in this shrine of football. They must be true in their conception of what the Ibrox tradition seeks from them. No true Ranger has ever failed in the tradition set him.

  Bill Struth

  Mean, Names, Shrines

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• I'm a big fan of the Rocky series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football.

  Vijender Singh

  Boxing, Tennis, Fans

  "Vijender Singh on Boxing, Bollywood and Modeling". Interview with Preetika Rana, blogs.wsj.com. Jun 1, 2012.

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• Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Passion, Fans, Compliment

  "I gave it my best shot" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.

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• Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.

  Peter Temple

  Class, May, Nonsense

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• Football has to work really hard to put a smile on peoples face and not to be so focused on the question of money. Everything is in danger of losing its soul if youre always going to sell out to the highest bidder.

  Gordon Taylor

  Soul, Faces, Losing

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• Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm and a blanket on the other without encountering raised eyebrows.

  Bennett Cerf

  Men, Years, Eyebrows

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• The beginning of my love for football goes back to when I was seven years old. I was spending time with my grandmother, Caletha Vick. I never knew anything about the game until one Sunday afternoon when she turned on the television because the Redskins were playing. They were my Uncle Casey's favorite team-and my grandmother's favorite too. After watching the game with them, I was hooked.

  Michael Vick

  Uncles, Team, Sunday

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• Sometimes on the basketball court or on the football field, you enter this place called 'The Zone.' You're not supposed to acknowledge when you're in 'The Zone,' but when you are, you simply cannot be stopped.

  Victor Cruz

  Basketball, Nfl, Fields

  Victor Cruz, Peter Schrager (2012). “Out of the Blue”, p.5, Penguin

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• I love sports. I was an athlete in high school, and my school was so small we didn't have a football team, so it's the one sport I didn't bother to learn the rules to because I never went to game.

  Katie Aselton

  Sports, Team, Athlete

  "A 'League' of Her Own: Actress Katie Aselton Says Yes, Women Can Be Sexy, Smart, and Talk About Football". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. August 29, 2013.

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• Football today is far too much a sport for the few who can play it well; the rest of us, and too many of our children, get out exercise from climbing up the seats in stadiums, or from walking across the room to turn on our television sets.

  John F. Kennedy

  Sports, Children, Exercise

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• I like the fans, but I don't feel an obligation that I have to be an example to them, like say maybe a baseball player would, or a football player or maybe some other type of musicians. I don't feel I have to really set an example that somebody else has to live up to.

  Bob Dylan

  Baseball, Player, Musician

  Source: www.rightwingbob.com

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• Some men develop their own singularity. Football makes men conform to stereotypes: the warrior or the hunter. Football produces a certain kind of masculinity - the drunk kind, the king who will yell the worst nationalist's ideas. In front of those, it is very difficult to be a dignified woman.

  Orlan

  Kings, Warrior, Men

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think with my hands, it was catching a lot of footballs and working with my father during the summer because he would always make me. My father was a bricklayer so I was a helper. My job was to make sure that he had bricks to lay.

  Jerry Rice

  Summer, Jobs, Father

  "The Secrets To Jerry Rice’s Hall Of Fame Football Career Can Be Found In Crawford, Mississippi". Interview with Chris Greenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2013.

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• I think just what my parents instilled in me was hard work and being able to always go out there and focus and be 100%. I took that work ethic into the NFL and everyday I always gave 100% and never wanted anything to be handed to me. I wanted to earn it. And every time I stepped on that football field during practice I wanted to leave that football field with learning something about what the practice was about for me that day...

  Jerry Rice

  Hard Work, Thinking, Practice

  "The Secrets To Jerry Rice’s Hall Of Fame Football Career Can Be Found In Crawford, Mississippi". Interview with Chris Greenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2013.

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• I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don't do anything at all. So I was a bit of loner, being interested in music.

  Justin Timberlake

  Play, Loner, Tennessee

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It says that alcoholism is a disease, and that it gets passed on from generation to generation. I've told my kids about that: "You've got the crazy gene in you, guys. When it comes time to kick back with the buddies, drink a beer, and watch a football game, just realize that there will be a day when that thing turns on you. So you better keep an eye on it".

  Nikki Sixx

  Crazy, Kids, Eye

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• That's often the best place to beat a goalkeeper, isn't it, between the legs?

  Clive Tyldesley

  Legs, Goalkeepers, Beats

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