Football Quotes - Page 34

• God has given him an attitude that he can deal with anything football throws at him. 
  (on Michael Owen)

  Graeme Souness

  Attitude, England, Given

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• If you take the money away, a lot of the footballers would still be playing football. So, the money has nothing to do with it.

  Alan Shearer

  England, Stills, Ifs

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• That's one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football's on!

  Michael Strahan

  Yelling, Great Things, Performing Live

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• I'm upset. There was nothing like putting on the red shirt. 
  (on retiring from international football)

  Robbie Savage

  Upset, Red, Shirts

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• Losing builds character. You know who said that? A loser! Guy who got his ass stomped every day, basketball, football, baseball, lose, lose, lose and lose. All right, I'm talking about me.

  Christopher Titus

  Basketball, Baseball, Character

  "Titus / Shannon's Song"". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Football is simple, you're either on time, or you're too late. If you're too late then you have to leave earlier.

  Johan Cruijff

  Simple, Too Late, Netherlands

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• First, learn how to report traffic jams, then you can talk about football. 
  (on Bulgarian journalists)

  Ivan Slavkov

  Jam, Firsts, Bulgarians

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• What do we need spectators for? The game should be played behind closed doors. Football is an art!

  Ivan Slavkov

  Art, Doors, Games

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• I'm really glad that Italy went out, they were playing boring football. 
  (on Euro 2004)

  Andy Townsend

  England, Boring, Glad

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• We bought good footballers. But many haven't got it, that football is a running and fighting sport. Against Bayern every team outdoes itself. And we do too little to counter that... We need a couple of attack dogs. Sometimes I sit on the bench and think, 'Man, is this a friendly match?'

  Otto Rehhagel

  Sports, Running, Dog

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• I know enough football to know that's funny!

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Enough, Knows

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• The last jobs I had were fixing cars and covering football games for a local access tv station. As in driving the mobile van to the field, setting up 3 cameras, teaching depressed grownups and interns how to use them and directing the game from the van and then wanting to kill myself.

  Louis C. K.

  Jobs, Teaching, Games

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. December 12, 2011.

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• My fantasy football team got mixed up in another fantasy and now they're stuck on a pirate ship with a chick in a Catwoman suit.

  Dana Gould

  Team, Pirate, Ships

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• I love that red wine is good for you. Isn't that cool? I want to hear more of this. I want to hear more things in life like, Red wine, in conjunction with a lap dance, while watching NFL football, is the best cardiovascular workout you can have.

  Dom Irrera

  Workout, Wine, Things In Life

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• What has brought unique, irreplaceable me - out of all the possibilities of life-here, now, to this? Was all my youth-the paper route after school, the stolen moments in the back seats of borrowed cars, the football workouts, the cramming for finals-meant to end this way, dying in a muddy paddy?

  William Broyles, Jr.

  Workout, School, Unique

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• Football today would certainly not be the same if it had not existed.

  Elton Welsby

  Today, Ifs

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• When I was playing football, I was getting up to 240 pounds, and they wanted me to get to 260.

  Bill Fagerbakke

  Pounds, Wanted, Playing Football

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

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• There's a lot of dancing in football. You can see Victor Cruz doing a little bit of a cha-cha or samba move in the end zone. You can see Terrell Owens getting his popcorn ready. You can see Ochocinco doing the Riverdance. But not so much when it comes to ballroom.

  Emmitt Smith

  Moving, Rivers, Dancing

  "Q&A: Emmitt Smith on Dancing with the Stars". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. October 8, 2012.

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• Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama.

  Simon Barnes

  Drama, People, Television

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• We have three kinds of guys on our team. We have guys that get it; they play good; they understand how to play winning football. We have some guys that are trying to get it, and they are working hard every day? We are supporting them, and we want the guys that have it to support them. Then we have some guys that don't get it and don't know that they don't get it. We are trying to replace them. We only have a couple left.

  Nick Saban

  Couple, Team, Winning

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• Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Baseball, Games, Belief

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• I wasn't like other boys. At any rate, I wasn't like my three elder brothers: they excelled at football and they were like other boys, going up to bed each night hugging annuals filled with stories about the glories of Pele and Danny McGrain.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Brother, Boys, Night

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

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• There is only one word to describe football and that is 'if only'.

  Bobby Robson

  One Word, Ifs

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• It's just about bein' yourself...even when you're on the dole, it's about your leather jacket. Music is the last refuge of the working class, along with football...in fact, gigs and riots are the only things left.

  Pete Doherty

  Leather Jackets, Class, Gigs

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• The caliber of play in professional football compared to college is better and everybody knows it. They don't realize how much better. What a giant leap forward in the ability of talent level, the speed, and even the grasp of what you are trying to do. There is no other distractions before the players.

  Marv Levy

  Player, College, Trying

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. December 24, 2004.

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