Football Player Quotes - Page 3

• I have cried twice in my life watching a football player; the first one was Maradona and the second was Ryan Giggs.

  Alessandro Del Piero

  Football, Player, Giggs

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• You know, I started this process of being a football player and I'm going to make it to the NFL very soon and I plan on finishing that. And by 'finishing that,' I mean that I'm going to go out and be the best that I can be and put everything forth to make that happen.

  Robert Griffin III

  Football, Mean, Player

  "Robert Griffin III Prepares For NFL Draft, Talks Peyton Manning From Super Bowl 2012". Interview with Chris Greenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 02, 2012.

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• The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.

  Red Grange

  Football, Player, Nfl

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• If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.

  Dick Butkus

  Football, Smart, Player

  Dick Butkus (1997). “Butkus: Flesh and Blood”, Doubleday Books

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• For what my generation did and went through and so forth, and what these glamour boys earn for what little they play, it's a joke. Is it football? Are you guys football players? Is that what they call football? It's not iron-man football, where you stay on the field for 60 minutes. Everybody! We were iron men. Not a bunch of pussyfoots.

  Chuck Bednarik

  Football, Boys, Player

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• The Democrats have to do what he did when [Rahm Emanuel] was chairman of the Democratic House Campaign Committee, recruit veterans, recruit football players, recruit business people. And I think that's what the job of the new party chair has to be.

  Mark Shields

  Football, Jobs, Party

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If I could start my life all over again, I would be a professional football player, and you damn well better believe I would be a Pittsburgh Steeler.

  Jack Lambert

  Football, Believe, Player

  "Check Out the Pittsburgh Steelers Hall of Fame Tribute Video" by Bryan DeArdo, www.cbssports.com. August 05, 2016.

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• I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world

  Lionel Messi

  Football, Player, Scoring Goals

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• Television is not the truth! Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats and story-tellers, singers and dancers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion-tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business!

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Football, Player, Boredom

  "The Screenplays: The Hospital; Network; Altered states".

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• Football is what you do, but it's not who you are. It's a big part of who you are. Part of who you are is you're a football player. It's your profession. It's a game you love to play. It's a game I love to play.

  Andrew Luck

  Football, Player, Games

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I think it's important to cross train. Surfing is a good cross training sport for your shoulders. I don't think I know of any other football player who does it, who can go and paddle out past the sets.

  Troy Polamalu

  Sports, Football, Past

  Source: www.complex.com

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• The first and foremost requisite of a good football player is that he must have a burning desire to play the game. There is absolutely no substitute for this.

  Frank Leahy

  Football, Player, Games

  Frank Leahy (1949). “Notre Dame Football: The T Formation”

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• You know how in sports baseball players, they hit home runs. Football players, they throw and they score touchdowns. I get to do something that very few people get to do - I get to touch the human brain, and every day I get to hit home runs, I get to score touchdowns.

  Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

  Sports, Baseball, Football

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.

  Alan Page

  Football, Successful, Player

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• My vision of being a professional, as opposed to being a football player before, has completely changed. Being a pro is doing everything right all the time. It sounds cliche, but if you apply that to strength training, if you apply that to a lot of body work, if you apply that to making good decisions, all the work I did on myself and all the time I spent with therapists and doctors and family, that was my mantra: "Do it right all the time." It started to build momentum, and it started to build up steam. Once I got the opportunity to come back and play, I just kept using that and it helped.

  Richie Incognito

  Football, Opportunity, Player

  Source: m.bleacherreport.com

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• I try to take what's given to me and then mold it to be a better football player.

  Troy Polamalu

  Football, Player, Trying

  Source: www.complex.com

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• There was a long stint during my childhood after I gave up on being a pro football player - were talking sixth grade here - that I strongly considered a future writing and drawing comic books. I have been making stuff up ever since.

  Adam Ross

  Football, Book, Writing

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• Football players are busy (with) study halls and tutoring. Well, anyway, at South Carolina they are. I don't know about all these other schools.

  Steve Spurrier

  Football, School, Player

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• I kissed my first girl when I was 15, and then I lost my virginity when I was 17. So that's pretty good. It was just that when you're in high school, you're sort of forced into the normal world, where you're competing with the football players, just kind of in that world where somebody like me didn't quite fit in.

  James Mercer

  Girl, Football, School

  "James Mercer of The Shins". Interview with Marc Hawthorne, music.avclub.com. February 9, 2007.

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• When I was a child I had a dream to become a football player. I always played as I played when I was a child. I tried to improve. I never dreamt of becoming a professional football player, I dreamed just to play with the best players in the best team. I never dreamed to be paid to play. I would have paid to play an FA Cup Final in front of 80,000 people in Wembley. I just tried to play the wonderful game that football is. So, I hope young players will still have this dream.

  Eric Cantona

  Dream, Football, Children

  "Looking For Eric - Eric Cantona interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I like the fans, but I don't feel an obligation that I have to be an example to them, like say maybe a baseball player would, or a football player or maybe some other type of musicians. I don't feel I have to really set an example that somebody else has to live up to.

  Bob Dylan

  Baseball, Football, Player

  Source: www.rightwingbob.com

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• I am a great football player. I had my own club when I was 14 years old. Football is in my blood, and I have been a fan of Fulham for the last 30 years.

  Mohamed Al-Fayed

  Football, Player, Blood

  "Richard Quest interviewed the owner of Harrods department store and Egyptian business tycoon Mohammed al-Fayed on his life, his health and his work". Interview with Richard Quest, edition.cnn.com. July 12, 2004.

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• I wish you guys would just say, 'Michael Sam, how's the football going? How's training going?' But it is what it is. And I just wish you guys would see me as Michael Sam the football player instead of Michael Sam the gay football player.

  Michael Sam

  Football, Gay, Player

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• Football used to be my god but no longer is. I still love it, I'm still aggressive, I still want to be very successful at it, I want to win a lot of football games. And my job is to be the best football player in the world, because it affords me a life; it pays, it's my job, and so it hasn't dulled my senses for the game or the love or the great excitement I get from the game. It's just that I'm very much at peace with myself because of my faith.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Football, Jobs, Successful

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• In 2008, when I was wrapped up a very toxic relationship, I lived out of my car for about four months to get away. And what I learned about myself in the process is that sometimes a safety net isn't really that safe; it's what keeps you from flying. That year I went from playing football to being a football player. Football wasn't paying my bills, but people didn't really know how bad it was. That was the one place in the world that when everything else was chaos, I could be great. I think we all have that place where we experience greatness. Football definitely saved my life.

  Jennifer Welter

  Football, Player, Greatness

  Source: www.glamour.com

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