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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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- Family
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If I'm not with my family or playing football then I'm usually in my office writing and drawing.
- Dreams
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I've always wanted to create. I didn't ever want to just be a football player, so I'm just bringing all these childhood dreams together to try to accomplish the things I want to do before I die.
- Play
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I don't want to be a star. I just want to play football.
- Keep Going
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In football, you have to be strong in the head. The mentality is important, and I do have this quality so I can keep going.
- I Am
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I like to win my challenge. That's English football as well, but I am not a dirty player.
- Play
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I get paid to play football and show everything I've got.
- Prison
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I had a lot of friends who were also football players. Some of them ended up in prison, some of them had injuries. I think of my group of friends, I am the only one who is a professional footballer.
- People
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My understanding is that we are generally a very philanthropic and compassionate people - that when there are disasters in the world, individual citizens send loads of money into appeals for different things. We're a bloody violent people, football fans, and we've been successful at wars, and we sell far too many weapons.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always came together as a family for that holiday, playing capture the flag and touch football and laughing a lot.
- Not Good Enough
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You have to hit the ground running at West Ham. If you don't, suddenly from the fans it's, 'You're not good enough to play for our football club.'
- Go
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I watch a lot of football and you hardly ever see Premier League players go down with cramp. The fitness, the intensity of Premier League football is phenomenal.
- Morning
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I love playing football. I always look at it as there's a lot worse things you can be doing than coming into a training ground in the morning and playing footy and having a laugh with the boys.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, West Ham are a Premier League football club and that's all that matters.
- Lose
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