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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though I have no real understanding of the mechanics of football, and can only nod along helplessly at complex post-match analyses, I do enjoy watching people who are enormously good at something doing that thing very well.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, watching Mohamed Salah play football is not unlike staring up at the stars and contemplating the vastness of the universe: it makes my own life seem nice and small.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football was always my dream. I started playing at the age of five, and I'm still playing now.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to be successful when you play, you have to be free in your mind, and that happens if you know that everything is taken care of - you just focus on the football.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honestly, I don't know the word 'pressure,' because football is my job. I always enjoy it.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is something you have to accept in football. Someone will say you are overpriced, but I did not think about it. Maybe I was overpriced, but I believe in my quality and want to get better. If you know what you can do for your team, it becomes no problem, and you don't even think about it.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a tough moment for me when I was in Senegal, especially when I was young. I was born in a village, I grew up there, and they don't like football.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew I was going to be a football player; I just didn't know how. It was the only thing I was doing, the only thing that I knew. Always training, training, training, training.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was three or four, only football was in my head. I went 10 years, and nothing changed - only football, football, football. The strange thing is, nobody played football in my family before.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The power of Liverpool Football Club is the collective. We always do everything together; this is our power.
- Fan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a Barcelona fan. My favorite player was Ronaldinho. But I watched a lot of English football and admired lots of English teams.
- Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since I started playing football, I've always taken the number 10 shirt.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020