Footballer Quotes - Page 6

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  Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.

  George Best

  Motivational, Soccer, World

  "George Best dies, aged 59" by Mark Oliver, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2005.

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• My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

  Duffy Daugherty

  Sports, Games, Feelings

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• People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.

  Michael Bassey

  Long, People, Lasting Impressions

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• You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.

  Homer Rice

  Motivational, Inspiring, Teamwork

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• Messi is the best player on the planet and he keeps on improving at Barça, now the best team in the world. What Messi does on and off the pitch is an inspiration for children who dream of becoming a footballer.

  Novak Djokovic

  Dream, Children, Team

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• Stop needing and start having. Stop wanting and start being.

  Ralph Marston

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  Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.

  Bear Bryant

  Inspirational, Sports, Football

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• It's never an upset if the so-called underdog has all along considered itself the better team.

  Woody Hayes

  Team, Upset, Underdog

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• Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need.

  Chris Hogan

  Adults, Needs, Want

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• If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens

  J. J. Watt

  Want, Great Work, Results

  Twitter post from Feb 20, 2014

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• Ask a footballer what they can cook and they always say spaghetti. It is what you reach for when there is nothing else left in the larder. It's poor people's food and it's unsophisticated. It's the same as bread - you just boil it instead of putting it in the oven.

  Giles Coren

  People, Bread, Poor

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• I feel very strong as an individual, but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest.

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Sports, Strong, Years

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• Ballet is like football. I don't understand a footballer's technique but I can see when he's playing brilliantly. People don't like ballet because they think they don't understand it. Actually they do. It's the most primitive form of appeal.

  Robert Helpmann

  Football, Art, Thinking

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

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• What Carew does with a football, I can do with an orange.

  John Carew

  Soccer, Football, Orange

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

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Soccer, Football

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• People say footballers have terrible taste in music but I would dispute that. In the car at the moment I've got The Corrs, Cher, Phil Collins, Shania Twain and Rod Stewart.

  Andy Gray

  People, Car, Taste In Music

  "Why Radiohead are the enemy of sporting excellence" by Steven Wells, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2003.

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• If I wasn't a footballer, I would be a virgin

  Peter Crouch

  Would Be, Virgins, Ifs

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• Footballers can be like artists when the mind and body are working as one. It is what Miles Davis does when he plays free jazz - everything pulls together into one intense moment that is beautiful.

  Lilian Thuram

  Beautiful, Football, Artist

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

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• Being a footballer is not just about wearing the shirt and playing football on the pitch. You have to be clean, you have to do right things, you have to show courage, you have to show many many things you know. I always say that you play the same way on the pitch as you do in life.

  Emmanuel Petit

  Football, Play, Way

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

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• As a footballer you always want to test yourself against the best.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Want, Tests

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• Ask any Ferrari, Porsche or Ray-Ban salesperson about their average customer and you will very likely hear that he is not, as the adverts would have us believe, a virile young footballer with shiny hair, a rippling six pack and a trouser pouch like a new punch bag. He is, in fact, a middle-aged bloke wearing more chins than he started life with and carrying the clear evidence of forty years of beer and pies slung across his midriff.

  Richard Hammond

  Believe, Beer, Pie

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• More than anyone, I am aware of the preconceptions. I was a Spice Girl. I'm married to a footballer.

  Victoria Beckham

  Girl, Spices, Married

  Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.marieclaire.com. October 6, 2010.

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• We bought good footballers. But many haven't got it, that football is a running and fighting sport. Against Bayern every team outdoes itself. And we do too little to counter that... We need a couple of attack dogs. Sometimes I sit on the bench and think, 'Man, is this a friendly match?'

  Otto Rehhagel

  Sports, Football, Running

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• Dave Mackay was the kind of footballer that legends are built around. He was simply the greatest - tough as teak on the pitch and a real gentleman off it.

  Alex Salmond

  Real, Gentleman, Legends

  FaceBook post by Alex Salmond from Mar 03, 2015

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• I'm sure sex wouldn't be so rewarding as this World Cup. It's not that sex isn't good but the World Cup is every four years and sex is not.

  Ronaldo

  Soccer, Sex, Years

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