Football Quotes - Page 9

• I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.

  Eric Cantona

  Done, Excited, Needed

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• I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career.

  Novak Djokovic

  Sports, Play, Careers

  "Novak & Ana". Interview with Emma John, Adrian Deevoy, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2008.

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• At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.

  George Plimpton

  Sports, Winning, Play

  George Plimpton (2016). “Paper Lion: Confessions of a last-string quarterback”, p.235, Random House

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• No one has ever drowned in sweat.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Hard Work

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• The lad got over-excited when he saw the whites of the goalpost's eyes.

  Steve Coppell

  Eye, Saws, Excited

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• Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing.

  Eric Cantona

  Inspirational, Motivational, Player

  "The player". Interview with Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2003.

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• I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, "Oh, well, there's another Saturday." The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.

  Knute Rockne

  Sports, Business, Failure

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• My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Soccer, Parent

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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

  Intelligent, Sharks, Games

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

  Jim Bouton

  Teamwork, Sports, Baseball

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• People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Teamwork, Winning

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

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational Sports, School, College

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• Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Sports, Agriculture, Doe

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become.

  Mary McGrory

  Soccer, Baseball, Nfl Football

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• Losing is not in my vocabulary.

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Vocabulary

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• Football is like life and I know life.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Motivational Sports, Knows

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• I'm going to make a prediction - it could go either way.

  Ron Atkinson

  Funny, Way, Predictions

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• He can't kick with his left foot, he can't head a ball, he can't tackle and he doesn't score many goals. Apart from that he's all right.

  George Best

  Feet, Goal, Balls

  "How George Best Became The World's First Playboy Footballer" by Richard T Kelly, www.esquire.com. June 5, 2016.

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• They were numerically outnumbered.

  Garry Birtles

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• Not to win is guttering.

  Mark Noble

  Winning

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• If you can't stand the heat in the dressing-room, get out of the kitchen

  Terry Venables

  Soccer, Kitchen, Rooms

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• In terms of the Richter scale this defeat was a force 8 gale.

  John Lyall

  Gale, Defeat, Scales

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• A game is not won until it is lost.

  David Pleat

  Games, Lost, Pleats

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• I've been consistent in patches this season.

  Theo Walcott

  Patches, Consistent, Stupid Sports

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• The thing about goalscorers is that they score goals.

  Tony Cottee

  Goal, Score, Stupid Sports

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