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“One of the things that I noticed in war was how difficult it was for our soldiers, at first, to realize that there are no rules to war. Our men were raised in sports, where a referee runs a football game, or an umpire a baseball game, and so forth.”

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Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“And the other was this: the doctor did want to take off my leg because he thought it was necessary. But you must remember boys in those days were raised for two things: work, and then they made their play; and if you couldn't play baseball and box and play football, why, your life was ended. That was in our boyish minds.”

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Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Probably no one here knows I coached a football team - a service team - playing against Georgetown. I think it was in the fall of 1924 Lou Little was your coach, and he beat us. But it was a very happy circumstance, because it brought me the friendship of another man, Lou Little, who to this day remains my very warm associate and friend.”

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Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Morale - the will to win, the fighting heart - are the honored hallmarks of the football coach and player. Likewise, they are characteristic of the enterprising executive, the successful troop leader, the established artist and the dedicated teacher and scientist.”

“But I noted with real satisfaction how well ex-footballers seemed to have leadership qualifications . . . I believe that football, perhaps more than any other sport, tends to instill in men the feeling that victory comes through hard - almost slavish - work, team play, self-confidence, and an enthusiasm that amounts to dedication.”

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Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“It took me a long time to realize that football isn't martyrdom, but a game that's enjoyable, and one in which getting better at it is supposed to be fun. Perhaps it would have been better if I had understood this as a young man.”

Ifs Men Long Has Beens Young Games Fun Realizing Football Long Time Understood Supposed To Be Get Better Young Man Enjoyable Martyrdom

Author:Oliver Kahn

“I was so obsessed with football that you could say I was taking the goal home with me at night. And then one day the system fell apart.”

Home Night Goal Football One Day Obsessed

Author:Oliver Kahn

“Turkish football serves the cause of nationalism, but not of the nation.”

Nations Causes Football Nationalism Turkish

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“Football can teach us that although a team's individual players may be weak, it can still be successful if it uses common sense. Or that we should not attack anyone physically when we suffer a depressing defeat.”

Ifs Should May Stills Use Suffering Individual Common Teach Successful Player Team Football Weak Defeat Common Sense Being Successful Depressing

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“My childhood proved to me that there could be no enjoyment of football without community. But it becomes difficult when this community is having problems with its identity. That's when we experience all possible forms of nationalist exaggeration.”

Problem Form Difficult Community Childhood Identity Football Enjoyment Exaggeration

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“Enjoyment of football is part of the social context, and I have lost my faith in this social context.”

Lost Social Football Enjoyment

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“Morality is probably the last thing one can learn from football.”

Lasts Football Morality

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“You'd got a baseball game, or a football game, basketball game, "USA! USA! USA!" Hey, calm down! Got a little German on it, don't you think?”

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Author:Chris Rock

“Does anyone actually think that Beckham knows he's in America? I think he just follows a football and all he notices is that it occasionally gets warmer.”

Thinking Knows Doe Humor Funny America Football Beckham

Author:Frankie Boyle

“We do not pull in and fill up. And I'll tell you why we don't. It's because I don't buy one goddamn drop of gas in the state of Michigan. We'll coast and push this goddamn car to the Ohio line before I give this state a nickel of my money.”

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Author:Woody Hayes

“It's more than personal. I can't screw it up. I have to do.”

I Can Football Screws Michigan Wolverines

Author:Jim Harbaugh

“Fans have a constitutional right to expect success and have high expectations.”

Fans Football Expectations High Expectations Michigan Wolverines

Author:Jim Harbaugh

“Top to bottom Michigan is about excellence, greatness. You have my pledge I will carry forward the excellence of Michigan football.”

Greatness Football Excellence Bottom Pledge Michigan Michigan Wolverines

Author:Jim Harbaugh

“I was reminded of another very special word when I was driving into Ann Arbor this morning, and that word is homecoming. Our family's had three homecomings to Ann Arbor, Michigan, in my lifetime.”

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Author:Jim Harbaugh

“I always took my workouts serious because I have a football background. I came from football, so when I got to baseball, I continued my football workouts in the offseason.”

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Author:Frank Thomas

“When it comes to football I think it's vital you always enjoy playing.”

Thinking Enjoy Football

Author:Jordan Henderson

“I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day - from fall, to winter, to spring. I went from football to basketball to track and it started all over again. I loved all of it. I just loved being an athlete and all that it entailed. It really accounts for who I am.”

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Author:Terry Crews

“As you understand the game of football, you understand that it is about wins and losses.”

Games Winning Loss Football Wins And Losses

Author:Tyrone Willingham

“I grew up playing everything from rugby, football, baseball, volleyball, bike races and boxing. I tried martial arts, loved to ride horses and I'm the youngest of three brothers, so it was a fiercely competitive family.”

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Author:Barry Pepper

“If you look at any type of situation, I look at the positive and try to spread my light and truth. I think it helps with my outlook on life and correlates to football. But I don't think it helps me run any faster, jump any higher, or catch the ball or anything like that. It just helps me with perspective.”

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Author:Arian Foster

“Talking about success in society, no one can complain, because today everyone can choose what he or she wants. They don't just have to choose between being proletarian or middle-class. Those kinds of things do not exist anymore. Today working class boys can play football and become multimillionaires. On football! There are no longer classes, who say that we are poor, we are suppressed by you etc.”

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Author:Odd Nerdrum

“I got into running because I was too uncoordinated to play baseball, too small for basketball, and too tiny for football. I lived in a broken home and had looked to those sports as a way of staying away from my home.”

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Author:Gerry Lindgren

“You have to believe in yourself. Belief is one of the biggest things in football. If you believe you can win the Premier League then of course it can happen.”

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Author:Rafael van der Vaart

“Holland I think is the best school to learn football. I think its a great league for that because it's not the strongest league in Europe.”

Thinking School Football Europe League Strongest Holland Best School

Author:Rafael van der Vaart

“Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters.”

Real Matter Sports Football Basketball Baseball Despise

Author:Stephen Graham Jones

“The street is where we all learn. I played organized football growing up as well, but when that was over, I went right to the street. I remember twisting my ankles, breaking my thumb, I hurt everything when I was little playing street ball.”

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Author:Champ Bailey

“I like football. I like baseball. When the pitcher and the batter start fighting, that's the best.”

Fighting Football Baseball Pitcher

Author:Pablo Francisco

“Counter football is not something weak teams only can do by the way. It is sometimes said in a way as if counter football is inferior. It's not.”

Ifs Way Said Sometimes Can Do Team Football Weak Inferiors

Author:Guus Hiddink

“Football is my life. I guess I can't live without it.”

I Can Football

Author:Berti Vogts

“Football is a game that fascinates people around the World like nothing else.”

People World Games Football Around The World

Author:Berti Vogts

“China is a sleeping giant if you just take a look at their experience regarding all kinds of sport, not football though, and the number of people that love sports. Chinese are eager to hit new shores and they are ambitious.”

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Author:Berti Vogts

“I think in China, they know you have to have a solid nationwide plan. It does not help to have a football hotspot in the north or the south.”

Thinking Knows Doe Helping Plans Football South China

Author:Berti Vogts

“China needs a table-tennis-like solidity in football.”

Needs Football Tables China Tennis Solidity Table Tennis

Author:Berti Vogts

“Progressing to where you can play a big role in football is nothing you can achieve in just two years. It will at least take five, six, well more likely seven years. A once-in-a-life-time success does not help you, constant quality is what you have to go for.”

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Author:Berti Vogts

“Without a healthy team spirit you won't get anywhere in football.”

Spirit Team Football Healthy Team Spirit

Author:Berti Vogts

“China has great potentials; the people are hard-working and focused. But they have to close the gap as far as the pace of the game is concerned. Football in the future will get faster and faster.”

People Hard Games Football Hard Work Concerned China Focused Faster Gaps Pace

Author:Berti Vogts

“You need players that stand for emotion in football. Football today is a game for television.”

Needs Today Games Emotion Player Television Football

Author:Berti Vogts

“First of all, it would be great for world football to have a competitive Chinese team as China traditionally has deep relation to sports in general.”

World Firsts Would Be Sports Team Football Relation China Chinese Sports In General

Author:Berti Vogts

“So it would be a good thing for Chinese parents to instill enthusiasm among their kids for football. It's a great game, not only regarding the emotions behind it, but it's also a game for young people to gain experience of working in a bigger group and work to achieve goals.”

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Author:Berti Vogts

“Football was everything to me. There was the physical aspect, sure. I did pushups and sit-ups every night, even as a kid. But I also just studied the game constantly. It was my life.”

Kids Night Games Football Aspect Every Night

Author:Thomas Jones

“As a football player, you're really an actor. I spent all Sunday getting into character. Sunday at 10 a.m., I have to be upset with someone who didn't do anything to me. By 11 a.m. I have to be angry. And by noon, I have to be furious.”

Character Actors Player Football Angry Upset Sunday Noon Furious Football Player

Author:Thomas Jones

“Acting has helped me detox in football. Getting lost in a character and a scene, it's awesome.”

Character Lost Acting Football Scene Getting Lost

Author:Thomas Jones

“I started playing ball when I was 13 and a half. Before that, I just wanted to play football and baseball but I kept growing so I figured it was time for basketball.”

Play Wanted Half Growing Football Basketball Baseball Balls

Author:Moses Malone

“Sometimes in football you have to score goals.”

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Author:Thierry Henry

“I always think about what I missed, and I think that was my driving force - never be satisfied with what I've done.”

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Author:Thierry Henry

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