- Love
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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
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Especially in football, it is not a QB's game... even though the media likes to make it into that - it takes the whole team.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean the game is just, everybody talks about baseball but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
The game is just, everybody talks about baseball, but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a quarterback, you have to love it. As much as you like to turn around and hand the ball off - the whole traditional football game - as a quarterback, you gotta love putting it in the air.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a basketball net that my dad had put up outside. I went out there and dribbled all day long. I wanted to play basketball. Then I'd go baseball, and then I'd go to football. I remember playing football in a plowed field. I grew up going from one thing to the next wanting to play something.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The scary thing is that players have a one-upsmanship about money; they sign a contract and they like it until someone signs a bigger one and now they don't like it. I don't like that. I don't begrudge anyone money, but it disrupts the football team.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do play football no-holds-barred. Any edge I can get, I'll take. I'd grab a face mask only in a fit of anger. Uncontrolled anger is damn near insane.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities.
- Defer
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're talking about nuclear physics, I have to defer to the next guy. But if you're talking about football, I don't have to take a back seat to anyone.
- Finances
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- Nov 07, 2020
I applaud anyone who comes to a football game, given the finances - it's not an easy thing to do.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know how quickly things can change in football, and I am only where I am because someone else lost their place.
- Nov 07, 2020
I went to football training when I was five because I think my father thought he had two boys.
- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the greatest stars in the history of football have been under contract with Puma.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today, at 35, I can throw a small football close to 80 yards - and straighter than I can hit a golf ball.
- Blame
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the media, I always seemed to come across as someone who was poking fun at the Scots and their football. I guess the Scottish public needed someone to blame for their international defeats, and I fitted the bill perfectly.
- Tomorrow
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- Nov 07, 2020