- 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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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm against all those people who say that there's still something to invent in football.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a lad growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, I played both Gaelic football and soccer and loved them both.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The majority of the time I'm at home with my family, I play football three times a week.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and Brazilian footballers compete on a level playing field with their rich white European counterparts.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a lucky boy. Never wanted for anything; new tracksuit, new pair of football boots. I had a happy childhood.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was seven we moved to Orpington, and in my new school, I was kept in for extra lessons to learn 'joined-up' writing instead of playing football. I still think that my poor handwriting and lack of soccer skills date from that period.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ain't got nothing to say. I just wanna play football.
- Reason
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the reason that women's football is still unknown is because it's not on television and not widely publicised for a wide majority of the leagues in the world.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.
- Brazil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football in Brazil is seen as a masculine sport, even with a lot of people accepting the female sport.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of our problems is the culture of Brazil which focuses on men's football. Of course we would like to change that. Maybe one day we will have a strong competitive league instead of our women footballers always having to play abroad.
- Football Player
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- Nov 07, 2020