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“My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.”

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Author:Clint Eastwood

“Liverpool was made for me and I was made for Liverpool.”

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Author:Bill Shankly

“Baseball is green and safe. It has neither the street intimidation of basketball nor the controlled Armageddon of football.... Baseball is a green dream that happens on summer nights in safe places in unsafe cities.”

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Author:Luke Salisbury

“For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is role model for children around the world... Messi will be the player to win the most Ballons d'Or in history. He will win five, six, seven. He is incomparable. He's in a different league.”

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Author:Johan Cruijff

“Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise.”

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Author:Johan Cruijff

“Al Toon, who had his football career cut short because of multiple concussions, hopes his son follows in his footsteps.”

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Author:Dave Pasch

“I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team.”

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Author:Wayne Knight

“In modelling or football, being 30 is very bad. But, for an actress, ageing is like wine. You taste better and better because your body, your mind, your feelings, all this is a tool and it's getting sharper with time.”

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Author:Ludivine Sagnier

“I don't want to be throwing the football on the front yard when I'm 75. I mean, I'm not opposed to men doing that. But I don't think it's gonna work for me.”

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Author:Alec Baldwin

“I used to go play football matches in the morning, and Id go straight from me football game to a dance competition.”

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Author:Tristan MacManus

“My ultimate goal is for that next generation coming up, who didn't see me play, go, 'Oh, he used to play football?'”

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Author:Michael Strahan

“My sophomore year I spent exactly one day on the JV football team. It was the tryout day.”

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Author:Mo Rocca

“At 13, I was a big, totally uncoordinated, hopeless football player. I responded to somebody elses rules, and I stayed just good enough to get a scholarship to Columbia, which was looking for scholar-athletes.”

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Author:Brian Dennehy

“When Im in town on Sundays, I sometimes go down to the Central Bar in the East Village to watch English football. But my natural inclination now is to get in the car with my wife and kids and get out of town.”

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Author:Joe Scarborough

“The social issues outside of football are not as defined as they were earlier, when integration took place and certain rights were legislated. The Civil Rights movement is over. Individuals can buy homes wherever they want, travel first class wherever they want, eat wherever they want.”

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Author:Jim Brown

“I also wanted people to know that football actually started in China almost 3000 years ago.”

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Author:John Woo

“My mum lives in Boston; she's famous for teaching wushu and t'ai chi. So from when I was young, my mum and aunt were like: 'You're training; you're not playing baseball or football.' Training every day was normal. Later, when I was almost a teenager, Bruce Lee became my idol.”

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Author:Donnie Yen

“I was captain of Wales; I've been captain of numerous football clubs.”

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Author:Vinnie Jones

“Film is like football - you join a team, get close to one or two people, then never hear from them again. I don't get emotionally involved. Do one, move on.”

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Author:Vinnie Jones

“I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed.”

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Author:Vinnie Jones

“If you think I'm a loser, that I'm a bust, that's fine, but you don't know me. I don't have a problem with people thinking I was a bad football player. I wasn't a particularly good pro football player. But I was a great college player, and that's something.”

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Author:Ryan Leaf

“I went to Dartmouth College, graduated, and had the opportunity to play two professional sports - I played for the New England Patriots in the NFL and professional lacrosse for the Boston Blazers. I had an injury, so I had to stop so I could heal. But when I was playing football, I wasn't making a lot of money; I wasn't a superstar.”

“Acting was a lot like football. When you're a DB and you're one on one with a receiver, you're going to dance. It's go-time in front of 100,000 people and everybody watching on TV. That's exactly how it is when a director says 'Action!' It's the same adrenaline rush, the same training process. I love it.”

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Author:Brian J. White

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

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Author:Arsene Wenger

“The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.”

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Author:Arsene Wenger

“I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.”

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Author:Alan Hansen

“maybe a certain amount of narcissism is as essential to an actress as muscles are to a football lineman.”

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“The closest Ive come to knowing myself is in losing myself. Thats why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.”

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Author:Kris Kristofferson

“I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.”

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Author:Gabriel Byrne

“My favorite television show of all time is 'Hill Street Blues.' I think it's the show that is to television what Pele was to football or Muhammad Ali was to boxing.”

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Author:Lennie James

“I played a little basketball, but basketball interfered with theater season. That's when we did our term plays and did nutshell versions of Shakespeare for English classes. And, believe me, I got a fair amount of looks from the guys on the team. 'You're in theater but you can play football?'”

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Author:Dennis Haysbert

“I sing the Star Spangled Banner, so I can get into football, basketball and baseball games for free.”

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Author:John Cullum

“I like playing all sports, from football to soccer, and I love playing baseball.”

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Author:Ryan Guzman

“I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.”

“Thankfully we had a big drive there in the fourth quarter after the fumble to put us up 11, and then the big drive to finish the game.”

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Author:Aaron Rodgers

“I love our fans. Our fans are so supportive. It's been incredible to end four playoff games with 'Go Pack Go.' It's great at home, they travel well, it's on a first-name basis. It's a special play to play and all of us are blessed to play in Green Bay, and hopefully we will be repaying those fans with the Lombardi trophy.”

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Author:Aaron Rodgers

“It's named the Lombardi Trophy for a reason, because we play and live in Titledown. We've got the best fans, and I can't wait to go home and see those fans and bring home the Lombardi Trophy.”

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Author:Aaron Rodgers

“It's a special honor to be one of the leaders of this football team. But I said it once, I'll say it again, no one person wins a game by themselves. Individually, it's top of the mountain, my sport, my profession. It's what you dream about as a kid.”

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Author:Aaron Rodgers

“Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.”

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Author:Robert Griffin III

“There's something about football that's exciting. The defense is trying to shut you down and you're trying to blow people up.”

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Author:Robert Griffin III

“I don't do too much outside of football during football season, because this is my job and I take it seriously. I don't do too much, don't really go out at all that much, don't eat out or anything, try to stay focused and stay to myself.”

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Author:Robert Griffin III

“If you say you're going to do something, you do it. If you start it, you finish it. Yes sir, no ma'am. And you've got to have that kind of structure in your life. It kind of helped me be that disciplined person that I am, whether it's with workouts, film or just the game of football.”

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Author:Robert Griffin III

“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.”

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Author:Robert Griffin III

“I don't picture myself as a normal person when I play football, and I don't think anyone else pictures me that way as well.”

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Author:Robert Griffin III

“Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.”

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Author:Lou Holtz

“To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.”

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Author:Lou Holtz

“As long as I can run fast, track will always be an option. But right now I'm focused on football because the NFL is knocking on my door and I'm not going to slam it in its face.”

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Author:Robert Griffin III

“As you know, the South is known for its hospitality, traditions, football, pageants, and food. Football is almost like a religion here. People say their priorities are faith, family, and then football. People eat, breathe, and sleep it in the South. Its a huge deal.”

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Author:Katherine Webb

“The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.”

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Author:Vladimir Putin

“I'm a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.”

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Author:Phil Jackson

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