- Game
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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.
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- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I miss high school football.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just love football.
- Grief
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, I skate as masculine as I can. I'm not a big strong guy. I'm not interested in fighting or throwing punches or balling my hands in fists all day. I'm not interested in guns, I'm not interested in football or stereotypically masculine things, so I'm going to skate in a fashion that is manly for Johnny Weir.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now let me say that Matt Busby was a great manager and Manchester United wouldn't be where they are without him. He was a god at the club, but he wasn't a god to me. Football is like that sometimes.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't see myself as Johnny Football.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing about Houston is it's an organization run from a different perspective. In Cincy, the team lives off money it earns from football. Houston's owner has other business interests, and he controls the money.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I also wanted people to know that football actually started in China almost 3000 years ago.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football officiating is so subjective - much more subjective than any other sport. But the more I watch - and I watch too many matches - the more impressed I am with referees.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not think any thinking individual buys a sports franchise, or an English football club, to make money.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot stick with the same media strategy forever any more than you can stick with the same football tactics forever.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm strong, but my arms are skinny; they're never going to get big and bulky like a football player.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020