- Just
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football is like that - sometimes you have good times, sometimes you have bad times.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's football - fans are passionate about it, and sometimes it's difficult for players to take, but we are good men, and we all make mistakes, and we are footballers.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football is a game. Don't get me wrong - there is money and other things in it, too - but it's still only a game.
- Complain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not really happy with my football career, but I can't complain about it, either.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.
- Ambition
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means you brain is receiving information from your body what the car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance.
- Cricket
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot has evolved and changed in women's sport in the last 10 years - particularly football and cricket. So, I think my timing, in terms of being able to play both for a while, was fortunate.
- Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I miss training for football and I miss playing matches.
- Excursion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I purely attribute my 'hamming it up' quality to growing up with three older brothers and just being like a tomboy my whole life. Literally, my mother had to be like, 'Honey, there's a certain point where you have to start wearing a shirt.' You know, I would run around with the boys and play tag football and climb trees.
- Former
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- Nov 07, 2020