- 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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- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know how much football means in England. They love it. That's why it's great to be here.
- Stronger
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are stronger, it helps. But ever since I have played football, I have been one of the smallest ones, and you have to try to compensate with other things because if you are faster or stronger, it helps you.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course Cristiano - what he has done over the last 15 years in football - is probably one of the best players ever in the history of football, so no comparison to him.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My goals in football helped make me disciplined and focused in all areas of my life.
- Amazing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The amazing thing about a football team is we can disagree and fight like brothers, but then we come back together. We are able to be open and honest about things that may offend us.
- Discipline
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- Nov 07, 2020
So much of football relates to Christian life - sacrifice, commitment, discipline.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you're going to play football, why not be the best at it that you can be and fulfill your potential?
- Brain Damage
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a physician, I'm somewhat an advocate of patients. How come, before Mike Webster, no NFL player was told or knew that there was an intrinsic risk of brain damage from playing football?
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion - several months after that season, if you subject his brain to sophisticated psychological testing and radiological testing, functional MRIs, there is evidence of brain damage.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
I meet with retired football players. Some are well-dressed, some are well-spoken, but when you talk to them personally, they will admit to you that they are having problems. But they are managing their problems. They have impaired memory, they're having mood problems. They are being treated by their psychiatrists.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trust in the great American ingenuity. We can derive more intelligent, more brain-friendly ways we can play football.
- Intelligent
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually, I'm for football. But I'm for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something to be said for any boy growing up among lots of other boys who like to play basketball and football, while all I wanted to do was put on musicals. Mentally, I was always in my own world.
- Football Field
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- Nov 07, 2020
I take my life and put it on the football field, and I take the football field and put it in my life.
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- Nov 07, 2020