- Me
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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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- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
I understand that it's always difficult for a national team to have a foreign manager. It's a nationalistic question that also flows into football.
- Green Bay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honestly, I was only rested in rugby football; all my friends were boys, and I definitely didn't want to go on stage, but I just did it to keep everyone happy. I did some singing, dancing like they liked, but it wasn't my thing at all.
- Meetings
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football is entertainment in which the audience is expected to delight in gladiatorial action that a growing portion of the audience knows may cause the players degenerative brain disease.
- Nov 07, 2020
I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.
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- Nov 07, 2020
More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off?
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a loyalty attached to football, and it is more communal than theatre. If you go to the football, it is part of the structure of your life. For lots of people, theatre is a treat.
- Nov 07, 2020
Football is a sad game.
- First Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it's the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020