Football Player Quotes - Page 8

• I feel fortunate that there was a place like the CFL where I could hone my skill and become a consistent football player and have a nice career.

  Darren Flutie

  Football, Nice, Player

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• We don't need no more rappers, we don't need no more basketball players, no more football players. We need more thinkers. We need more scientists. We need more managers. We need more mathematicians. We need more teachers. We need more people who care; you know what I'm saying? We need more women, mothers, fathers, we need more of that, we don't need any more entertainers

  Tupac Shakur

  Basketball, Football, Mother

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• I'm a football player by trade. That's what I do, ... So I did everything I could to make myself a football player again.

  Tedy Bruschi

  Football, Player, Trade

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• Football players win football games.

  Chuck Knox

  Football, Stupid, Winning

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• If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.

  William Petersen

  Sports, Football, Player

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• I'm Michael Sam, I'm a football player, and I'm gay.

  Michael Sam

  Football, Pride, Gay

  "'I'm Michael Sam, I'm an American football player … and I'm gay'". www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2014.

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• I hope people see us not just as a football player, but also as human beings, we are not machines!

  Marco Reus

  Football, Player, People

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• Over the years I've learnt to live with two persons in my heart. One is Edson, who has fun with his friends and family; the other is the football player Pele. I didn't want the name. 'Pele' sounds like baby-talk in Portuguese.

  Pele

  Football, Baby, Fun

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• I led the NFL in attempts the past two years and they really didn’t go out and get a quarterback to help me so I knew it’s going to be all on me again. I could see my mortality as a football player, that I’m not going to be able to do this much longer. It just became obvious to me that playing football for me is not going to be fun, not something I’m going to enjoy and it’s time for me to do something different.

  Ricky Williams

  Football, Fun, Past

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• It's easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they're all at home. In basketball, they're on the road all the time.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Inspirational, Basketball, Football

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• There is only one, believe it or not. I did get knocked up by a baller. A big football player.

  Jessica Simpson

  Football, Believe, Pregnancy

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• 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?

  George Saunders

  Football, Running, Couple

  "George Saunders's Wild Ride". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. December 12, 2010.

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• People like to focus on a narrow stereotype, like if we didn't have football then we wouldn't have made it, ... The reality is, there are a lot of football players like me who came out of the middle class.

  Jonathan Vilma

  Football, Player, Reality

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• My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.

  Ian McShane

  Soccer, Football, Teacher

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• That makes me think of spandex-covered football players. It's not me. I'm in rhinestones and velvet, not spandex.

  Johnny Weir

  Football, Player, Thinking

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• It's rare to have a best friend who is also your brother and also an NFL football player, and he knows exactly what I'm talking about.

  Eli Manning

  Football, Brother, Player

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• I was not a very good football player when I started out.

  Lynn Swann

  Football, Player, Very Good

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• When you think of me as a football player, I would like for people to think that I put it on the line every time. Good or bad, win or lose, I put it on the line.

  Joe Greene

  Football, Winning, Player

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• As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience off the field.

  John Elway

  Sports, Football, Player

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• Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.

  Bob Lilly

  Football, Player, Years

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• I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.

  Cam Newton

  Football, Player, Icons

  Sports Illustrated Interview, www.theguardian.com. December 27, 2011.

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• I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn't given the liberty to do certain things when I was young.

  Michael Vick

  Football, Player, Games

  "The Impossible, Inevitable Redemption of Michael Vick" by Will Leitch, www.gq.com. August 18, 2011.

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• I think the part that people get confused is that when you come in National Football League at a young age, they tell you to try to look for other things to do, and be ready for everything else in your life just in case. But as soon as you have a bunch of success, they think that's the only thing you can do, that you can only be a football player. I think God has gifted me with so many other things other than just football, and that's what I want to bring to the world.

  Russell Wilson

  Football, Confused, Player

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.

  Arsene Wenger

  Football, Player, People

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• The statistics John Wesson has compiled in The Science of Soccer show that Premiership football players are vastly more likely to have been born in the first half of the school year. These were the biggest boys in the class and were thus selected for the school team. How fair is that?

  Daniel Finkelstein

  Soccer, Football, Team

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