Football Fan Quotes

• Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Football, Cutting, Personality

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward S”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

  Dave Barry

  Football, Intelligent, Sharks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Soccer, Football, Team

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1976). “Theorie des ensembles pratiques”, Verso Books

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• The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

  Nick Hornby

  Football, Disappointment, Fans

  Nick Hornby (2005). “Fever Pitch”, p.14, Penguin UK

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• So my dad raised me, and he's a huge football fan.

  Lisa Guerrero

  Football, Dad, Fans

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• When you win, nothing hurts.

  Joe Namath

  Softball, Sports, Baseball

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• Football fanaticism and high intellect seldom go together.

  Hugh MacDiarmid

  Football, Together, Intellect

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• I'm a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Sports, Football, Competition

  Interview, www.ign.com. December 20, 2006.

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• Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.

  Duffy Daugherty

  Sports, Football, Nfl Players

  Quoted in L.A. Times, 5 Oct. 1963

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• The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, Football, Games

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

  Frank Gifford

  Sports, Football, Nfl

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• Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, Football, Simple

  "Steppe change: how Gareth Southgate became a management guru in Russia" by Stefan Stern, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2018.

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• At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life.

  Paul Dietzel

  Football, Character, College

  Twitter post from Sep 05, 2014

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• If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, "Roll, Tide, Roll!"

  Bear Bryant

  Football, Believe, College

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• A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

  Vince Lombardi

  Football, Motivational Sports, School

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• If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

  Erma Bombeck

  Soccer, Sports, Football

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?”, p.151, Open Road Media

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• Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Dance, Sports

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I am a football fan, yeah.

  Joe Namath

  Football, Fans, Yeah

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• Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died.

  Frank Leahy

  Football, College, Practice

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• No, but you can see it from here.

  Lou Holtz

  Football, College, Football Coach

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• I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.

  Bear Bryant

  Football, Real, Player

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• Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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• Messi makes the difference most of the time. In particular, he is always going forwards. He never passes the ball backwards or sideways. He has only one idea, to run towards the goal.So as a football fan, just enjoy the show.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Football, Running, Ideas

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• Always remember..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.

  Ralph Jordan

  Football, Motivational Sports, College

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