Football Quotes - Page 4

• Souness gave Fleck a second chance and he grabbed it with both feet.

  James Sanderson

  Second Chance, Feet, Chance

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• That was the perfect penalty - apart from he missed it.

  Rob McCaffrey

  Perfect, Penalties

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• Here's a twenty, bury two.

  Bear Bryant

  College, Two, Twenties

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• Sandro's holding is face. You can tell from that it's a knee injury.

  Dion Dublin

  Knee Injuries, Knees, Faces

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• Bobby Robson must be thinking of throwing some fresh legs on.

  Kevin Keegan

  Thinking, Legs, Throwing

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• He's very fast and if he gets a yard ahead of himself nobody will catch him.

  Bobby Robson

  Yards, Newcastle United, Ifs

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• Woodcock would have scored but his shot was too perfect.

  Ron Atkinson

  Perfect, Shots

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

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• When I'm shouting at the defence, subtitles come up in front of the goal.

  Shay Given

  Soccer, Player, Goal

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• And there's Ray Clemence looking as cool as ever out in the cold.

  Jimmy Hill

  Rays, Cold

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• I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.

  Bob Devaney

  Winning, College, Games

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• Beckenbauer has really gambled all his eggs.

  Ron Atkinson

  Eggs

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

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• The town, the team, it's a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don't have football as an out.

  Brett Favre

  Inspirational, Sports, Teamwork

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview with Suzy Kolber, www.espn.in. November 24, 2004.

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• He's a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Nice, Guy, Too Much

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• Football is mesmerizing, because it's a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not as an individual. Players bond whether they're black or white, much as soldiers do.

  Oliver Stone

  War, Team, Player

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• That's twice he (Terry Phelan) has got between himself and the goal.

  Brian Marwood

  Goal

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• I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.

  Alex Karras

  Inspirational, Teenager, College

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• Merseyside derbies usually last 90 minutes and I'm sure today's won't be any different.

  Trevor Brooking

  Different, Today, Lasts

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• No, but you can see it from here.

  Lou Holtz

  College, Football Coach, Texas Football

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• The match will be shown on Match of the Day later this evening and if you don't want to know the result look away now as we show you Tony Adams lifting the cup for Arsenal.

  Steve Rider

  Looks, Want, Cups

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• Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.

  Bill Shankly

  Anfield, Grass, Liverpool Fc

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• If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

  Irwin Shaw

  Gun, Player, Crowds

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• What's one more torpedo in a sinking ship.

  Lynn Dickey

  Nfl, Ships, Sinking

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• There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ''national pastime'' pedestal in less than fifteen years.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Baseball, Distance, Eye

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.56, Pan Macmillan

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• College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity.

  H. L. Mencken

  Humorous, Loss, College

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• Thats the beauty of sport. Sometimes you laugh, sometimes you cry

  Pep Guardiola

  Sports, Laughing, Sometimes

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