Football Quotes - Page 4

• That's kind of how I approach life and football; why dwell on something that's hasn't happened.

  Brett Favre

  Sports, House, Kind

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview with Suzy Kolber, www.espn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• The town, the team, it's a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don't have football as an out.

  Brett Favre

  Inspirational, Sports, Teamwork

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview with Suzy Kolber, www.espn.in. November 24, 2004.

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• That was the perfect penalty - apart from he missed it.

  Rob McCaffrey

  Perfect, Penalties

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• And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.

  Parminder Nagra

  Soccer, Baseball, Games

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 7, 2003.

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• I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.

  Wally Schirra

  Soccer, Equipment, American Football

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• I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.

  Alex Karras

  Inspirational, Teenager, College

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• Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we.

  Sepp Blatter

  Greed, Fifa, World

  " Blatter rails against 'football's greedy'" by Timothy Sturtridge, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2005.

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• Souness gave Fleck a second chance and he grabbed it with both feet.

  James Sanderson

  Second Chance, Feet, Chance

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• I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park.

  Merlin Olsen

  Games, Nfl, Central Park

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• Maybe Louis does have a golden willy.

  Arjen Robben

  League, Doe, Golden

  "World Cup 2014 talking points: is Van Gaal lucky or is it a steel nerve?" by Nick Miller and Dominic Fifield, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2014.

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• At 15, 16, you think you're going to be captain of England. But I realised it wasn't going to happen for me on a windy November night in Darlington, coming to my peak at the age of 23 but still playing for Mansfield Town.

  Aidy Boothroyd

  Soccer, Night, Thinking

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• Chris Eagles flew in on Shaun Wright-Phillips, so hard he almost broke the hyphen.

  Henry Winter

  Soccer, Player, Eagles

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• When I'm shouting at the defence, subtitles come up in front of the goal.

  Shay Given

  Soccer, Player, Goal

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• Teddy has lost that yard of pace he never had.

  Tony Cascarino

  Soccer, Player, Yards

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• Why is it good for football to take the excitement away from fans by overcharging them for tickets to see their team?

  Sepp Blatter

  Team, Fans, Tickets

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• There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ''national pastime'' pedestal in less than fifteen years.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Baseball, Distance, Eye

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.56, Pan Macmillan

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• I feel an autumnal Saturday, no matter how beautiful, is wasted if it doesn't find me sitting in on a football game.

  Howard Roberts

  Beautiful, Games, Sitting

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• College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity.

  H. L. Mencken

  Humorous, Loss, College

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• The NFL draft is going to be this Thursday. That's a huge night for college players. That's the night they start being paid over the table.

  Jay Leno

  Player, Night, College

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• Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard.

  Donald Hall

  Baseball, Brother, Father

  Donald Hall (2017). “Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)”, p.35, North Point Press

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• If he'd been English or Swedish, he'd have walked the England job.

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Jobs, England

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• And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.

  Don Shula

  Sports, Games, Assistants

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• ...and he crosses the line with the ball almost mesmerically tied to his foot with a piece of string.

  Ian Darke

  Feet, Balls, Pieces

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• Tottenham are trying tonight to become the first London team to win this cup. The last team to do so was the 1973 Spurs team.

  Mike Ingham

  Team, Winning, Trying

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• The crowd think that Todd handled the ball...they must have seen something that nobody else did.

  Barry Davies

  Thinking, Balls, Crowds

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