- Goals
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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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- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
To make a difference within the football environment means to make a difference in the world.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great moments of entertainment, great football, unforgettable evenings. I think that's what it's all about: experience, emotions, and the special touch that the Champions League brings on and off the field.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dream is to get the young people off the streets, to make it possible for them to play football in the stadium instead.
- Pleasure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been playing football for 23 years and with more than 30 nationalities; that has been a pleasure.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Globalisation has changed the world, and football is the perfect instrument to set an example and to help adapt to this new world.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes - there were no washing machines - while my handsome and adored husband was off playing football in the park on Sunday morning with all the delightful young men who had been friends to both of us at Cambridge three years earlier.
- Players
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football players win football games.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I play fantasy football every year.
- Nov 07, 2020
I tried to look around to see what I wanted to do. Football was something I knew the most about.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a football family, on the sideline. I was a waterboy. It was kinda something I was around my whole life.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the more bizarre games I played as a kid was something called 'kill the man.' It was a cross between football and rugby, which found the person carrying the ball a target of some hungry tacklers. I still don't know why we enjoyed the game because it was impossible to win.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020