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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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I'm Canadian. The only difference between dating American and Canadian guys is whether you'll be watching football or hockey. I have no preference.
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In society and in football in Spain, achievements are not always appreciated or valued.
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If you want to play showy football and be noticed then mine isn't the position to pick.
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It's nice to have other hobbies, other than golf. I've played football, I play tennis. I enjoy doing things other than golf, and poker is one of them.
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I knew Manuel Pellegrini from my time in Spain. I'd only heard good things about him, that he was someone who instilled the confidence in his players to go out and play good, attacking football.
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I learned to play football in the streets. Every day of school, everyone came and played football. The street is a good school, and you learn many things there - resiliency, how to play against older players, and how to put up with or dodge kicks.
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I like tricks; I like to dazzle. Dribbling and leaving your opponent on his backside is what life is for. If I achieve what I want to, then I'll mark a distinct era in football. I'm the Che Guevara of modern soccer.
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Like many a Yank before me, I have tried to explain to European friends that Americans actually know soccer quite well, that many of us played it in school and college, but that, well, we just don't find it quite as exciting as, say, what we call football.
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We haven't rushed to set up targets, either in business or in football. Our goal was to understand how to act and then to move gradually.
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It is very important that football can see beyond religion but FIFA does not just ignore its impact.
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The source of wealth is from individuals with little or no history of interest in the game, who have happened upon football as a means of serving some hidden agenda.
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