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- Nov 07, 2020
Football Quotes
Reflections from the field, the sideline, and the stands.
This set of football quotes draws on players describing what the game demanded of them, from proving doubters wrong despite their size to naming the skills that earned them a nickname. A few speak plainly about football being central to who they are, not just a pastime. For more on the people who play it, see our Football Players quotes.
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- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still bump 'Smells Like Teen Spirit.' I used to listen to it before all my football games.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been engulfed in sports since I was a 2-year-old; I picked up any kind of ball - a basketball, baseball, football - I just loved to play something. I loved the energy of being in arenas and watching the game on TV.
- Nov 07, 2020
I like entertaining football but, at the same time, you can't concede goals. That's a tricky balance to find.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The important thing for me is we want to keep the ball, we want to have the ball because we are Arsenal football club.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes you have to just plug away, plug away in your game of football and maybe when your opponent gets a bit more tired you get that little extra metre and that's when you score the goals.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's one of the best leagues in Europe in football. Benfica in my opinion is one of the top 10 biggest clubs in the world.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices.
- Moving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rugby is a different game. There is an interruption every two minutes also in American football. Our soccer is a moving game: play, play, play, move, move - you don't interrupt.
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- Nov 07, 2020
German football is like English football. The Germans and the English do not play like a Brazilian side. They have to improve, bring up their young players, who have character.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a Middle Eastern sheikh comes to buy Bayern Munich, he could buy 49 per cent. Fifty-one per cent must stay in Germany with the club. That law came about because of the developments of international football.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had an American boyfriend, went to football games, tennis tournaments, and to my prom. I was so serious about my American boyfriend that I brought him back to Germany with me to visit my parents. They were horrified.
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- Nov 07, 2020