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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
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played football in eighth grade, and even though I had a passion for it, it turned out I'm no good at playing it.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because sanitation has so many effects across all aspects of development - it affects education, it affects health, it affects maternal mortality and infant mortality, it affects labor - it's all these things, so it becomes a political football. Nobody has full responsibility.
- Basketball
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where I'm from, Bastrop, Louisiana, you played football, basketball, and baseball; you ran track - and that was about it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people would say safety was my best position. To me, the biggest challenge and most gratifying thing I got out of playing football was playing corner, because it was a bigger challenge than playing safety. Playing corner provided me my biggest thrills and my biggest headaches.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never imagined doing anything other than football, but now, thinking about it coldly, if I hadn't been a footballer, I would have been a musician.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm ready to help China realize its football dream. I think China can be a major player on the world stage one day.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Spain, the game's a lot more open. They score a lot more goals. They play football more. Here in Italy, they are much more concerned with tactics and strategy, and sometime we don't play football.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a working-class boy, golf was never really on my radar, and when I was growing up, Irish football was my sporting passion.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I'd bring to Villa if I was in charge is the idea that winning is important in football, but winning while playing offensive football is the best of all.
- Defensively
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to play attacking football, but I think the big difference is that we expect a lot more from our strikers, to do more pressing and to keep compact. We like to play a high line defensively and press the ball.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
Manchester United are always a team that try to play football, try to play football from the back.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020