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American Football Quotes
On American football, seen from different angles.
These American football quotes often come from an outsider's perspective - comparing the sport's popularity to baseball and hockey, or describing confusion at its rules from a UK point of view.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honestly, like, American football is not that big over in the U.K., so we hadn't really heard of Drew Brees before. I did know that he was, like, a massive football player. He's a massive star, so I was still a little bit anxious and nervous to meet him.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.
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And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the late-'80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl was on TV, but it didn't really catch on. When I was a kid, though, I became a big Miami Dolphins fan. I don't really know why - I just liked the logo, I guess. I didn't really know what was going on.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.
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- Nov 07, 2020
While American football is very structured and linear and static - where everyone lines up, and there's a burst, and it happens - soccer is like the cosmos. It's like constellations. It's bodies moving in space. It's a very spherical game.
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- Nov 07, 2020
American leagues - baseball, ice hockey, American football and basketball - you are the best. But in a global sport like soccer, you're not.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Europe, and soccer was the first organized game I played. When we moved back to the U.S. in the middle of 4th grade, I switched to American football and stopped playing competitively until college, when I played intramurals.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football - but tougher.
- Nov 07, 2020