Football Quotes - Page 9

• Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.

  Burt Bacharach

  Hell, Playing Football

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• The game is balanced in Arsenal's favour.

  John Motson

  Games, Favour, Balanced

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• At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.

  George Plimpton

  Sports, Winning, Play

  George Plimpton (2016). “Paper Lion: Confessions of a last-string quarterback”, p.235, Random House

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• The lad got over-excited when he saw the whites of the goalpost's eyes.

  Steve Coppell

  Eye, Saws, Excited

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• No one has ever drowned in sweat.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Hard Work

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• Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing.

  Eric Cantona

  Inspirational, Motivational, Player

  "The player". Interview with Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2003.

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• I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, "Oh, well, there's another Saturday." The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.

  Knute Rockne

  Sports, Business, Failure

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• My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Soccer, Parent

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• Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

  Dave Barry

  Intelligent, Sharks, Games

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Sports, Agriculture, Doe

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

  Jim Bouton

  Teamwork, Sports, Baseball

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• Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become.

  Mary McGrory

  Soccer, Baseball, Nfl Football

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• People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Teamwork, Winning

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• A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational Sports, School, College

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• Losing is not in my vocabulary.

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Vocabulary

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• Football is like life and I know life.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Motivational Sports, Knows

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• If you can't stand the heat in the dressing-room, get out of the kitchen

  Terry Venables

  Soccer, Kitchen, Rooms

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• In this case, I realize that, unlike when I was 22 years old, I realize now that football will not go on forever, it is a small part of your life.

  Brett Favre

  Years, Forever, Goes On

  "Brett Favre: First And Ten". IGN SPORTS interview, www.ign.com. November 29, 2004.

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• Not to win is guttering.

  Mark Noble

  Winning

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• I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now.

  Ricky Williams

  Letting Go, Thinking, Self

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• I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions and collide. Besides, I have contempt for a game in which players have to wear so much equipment. Men play basketball in their underwear, which seems just right to me.

  Anna Quindlen

  Basketball, Player, Men

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.164, Ballantine Books

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• In terms of the Richter scale this defeat was a force 8 gale.

  John Lyall

  Gale, Defeat, Scales

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• He can't kick with his left foot, he can't head a ball, he can't tackle and he doesn't score many goals. Apart from that he's all right.

  George Best

  Feet, Goal, Balls

  "How George Best Became The World's First Playboy Footballer" by Richard T Kelly, www.esquire.com. June 5, 2016.

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• The Arena League is the best thing that could have happened to me because I get to run the whole process. I'm seeing not only the football side but the business side

  John Elway

  Sports, Running, League

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• Maybe a good rule in life is never become too important to do your own laundry.

  Barry Sanders

  Nfl, Important, Life Is

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