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Football Players Quotes
Candid words on what it takes to play the game.
These football players quotes weigh in on how the profession compares to other sports, including a debate over who counts among the best overall athletes. For more on that comparison, Best quotes explores similar rankings and opinions across fields.
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- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
In football, every play, play after play, there's that physicality. Football players only play once a week, so they must really need to rest. That does kind of tell you how physical the sport is. But in hockey, you have the boards. I just couldn't say which is more physical.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
By high school, I was already tall - 5-foot-8 - and one day I made the mistake of wearing green tights. The football players all started calling me the Jolly Green Giant.
- Camera
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- Nov 07, 2020
I play football, and most football players are camera shy. We just want to be left alone; we just want to stick to what we do.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.
- Players
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd followed the strange deaths of pro football players for years, sensing something odd going on.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe it's too far-fetched to think that we as college football players can make a significant, positive difference in the youth culture of America simply by embracing the responsibilities that accompany this place of privilege.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience off the field.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had the good luck to have the experience of training with fantastic football players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Ozil, Modric, and I also played for Real Madrid B. That was a fantastic experience because it was my first international experience as a football player and taught me a lot as a football player.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
On my wall, along with my favorite football players and baseball players, I had Marlon Brando and Sir Laurence Olivier. These were childhood idols.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
Top-flight football players are a strange bunch.
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- Nov 07, 2020