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“American sports are quite masculine. And football - although it's still played by men all over the world - football compared to American football is quite feminine in its artistry. And there's no padding. It's America's loss, though.”

Men World Stills America Sports Loss Football Feminine Masculine Artistry American Football

Author:Noel Gallagher

“I've always believed since I was a kid that God was gonna allow me to play professional football, to use it as a platform to proclaim and live out the name of Jesus. And, you know, that's the most exciting part about my life because God has done things in me to change my character to benefit the kingdom.”

Knows Done Play Character Use Kids Jesus Names Football Benefits Exciting Kingdoms Platforms Always Believe

Author:Reggie White

“I have cried twice in my life watching a football player; the first one was Maradona and the second was Ryan Giggs.”

Firsts Player Football Cried Football Player Maradona Giggs

Author:Alessandro Del Piero

“Mostly I play sports games - football and basketball. 'Inside Drive' and 'NFL Fever.'”

Play Games Sports Football Basketball Nfl Fever

Author:Paul Pierce

“I believe that I need to explore my opportunities to the maximum, in order to excel and continue to play the best football I can.”

Needs Believe I Can Play Order Opportunity I Believe Football Maximum Best Football Professional Athlete

Author:Hidetoshi Nakata

“Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.”

Littles Whole Careers Football Rhythm Trapped Little Time Playing Football

Author:Dennis Bergkamp

“In the game of football, you can never be too sure of anything.”

Games Football

Author:Jason Babin

“If football had always been my main goal then I would have gone to some scholarship school; I could have gotten more exposure there.”

Ifs School Goal Gone Football Exposure Scholarship

Author:Michael Corbat

“I want to do what I like and that's play football.”

Want Play Football

Author:Royston Drenthe

“Spanish football is very good but every year the same teams win the league.”

Years Winning Team Football Very Good League

Author:Royston Drenthe

“What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life.”

People Knows Writing Home Fields Football Bed My Family Letters Prison Did You Know Football Field Bunk

Author:Michael Vick

“I do play football no-holds-barred. Any edge I can get, I'll take. I'd grab a face mask only in a fit of anger. Uncontrolled anger is damn near insane.”

I Can Play Faces Football Fit Edges Insane Damn Mask

Author:Joe Greene

“He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.”

People Thinking Bigs Care Fans Football Involved Football Fan

Author:Aaron Rodgers

“He said something was unique: I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do, and see if the officials take air out of it.”

Ifs Said Air Football Limits Unique Officials

Author:Aaron Rodgers

“I think if you're a good high school player that you have the ability to be a good college football player. If you're a good college football then you have the ability to be a great NFL player.”

Ifs Thinking School Ability Player Football College High School Nfl Football Player College Football Nfl Players Good College Good High School

Author:Robert Griffin III

“Every time you step on the football field in between those lines you're putting your life, your career, every single ligament in your body in jeopardy.”

Body Lines Steps Careers Fields Football Your Body Jeopardy Football Field

Author:Robert Griffin III

“You would not want me on your football team.”

Want Team Football Want Me Football Team

Author:Seth MacFarlane

“When everything else breaks down, I don't hesitate to roam out of the pocket and do the boogaloo.”

Break Football Pockets Breaking Down

Author:Fran Tarkenton

“I could have played football for two or three more years. All I needed was a leg transplant.”

Years Two Three Sports Football Needed Legs Transplants

Author:Johnny Unitas

“I remember my dad, who coached football, would buy some of his players football shoes when they couldn't afford it.”

Remember Player Football Dad My Dad Shoes

Author:Chaske Spencer

“I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically predictable, the men especially. Actors are forever stressing their ordinariness, their beer and football-loving commitments.”

Men I Can Actors Forever Football He Man Commitment Stress Beer Interviews Predictable Ordinariness

Author:Peter York

“Writing a song is like playing a series of downs in football: Lots of rules, timing is crucial, lots of boundaries, lots of protective gear, lots of stopping and starting.”

Writing Song Football Series Starting Boundaries Crucial Timing Stopping Protective Gears

Author:Christine Lavin

“There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation, it is illustrated literature, filmed radio. These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.”

Ideas Reality Today Film Literature Nations Team Football Concepts Radio Currents Broads Football Team Outdated

Author:Jean-Jacques Annaud

“I actually like football a great deal.”

Deals Football

Author:Buzz Bissinger

“There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.”

Danger Football Trauma Medical Repetitive

Author:Buzz Bissinger

“But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it.”

Order Economic Students Football College Program Prepared Missions Academic Be Prepared Mockery Fees Rigor Going To College Economic Order

Author:Buzz Bissinger

“In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.”

Years Purpose Study Issues Football College Higher Argument Primaries Convincing Higher Education College Football

Author:Buzz Bissinger

“You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.”

Want Games Watches Football Like You Basketball Guests Fades Olympics Fade Away Football Game Pro Football Basketball Game

Author:Dick Ebersol

“I feel fortunate that there was a place like the CFL where I could hone my skill and become a consistent football player and have a nice career.”

Feels Careers Nice Player Football Skills Fortunate Consistent Football Player

Author:Darren Flutie

“I'm in great shape, back-in-my-football-days shape. I've worked hard to get to this point.”

Hard Football Shapes

Author:Brian Jordan

“Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.”

Football Pops Absolutely Nothing Pro Football

Author:Wellington Mara

“People call me Wayne Wonder and it also goes back to football because I could do mad skills with the ball and people would marvel and wonder how I could do it.”

People Wonder Football Skills Balls Mad Call Me Wayne

Author:Wayne Wonder

“I looked like a monkey trying to wrestle a football.”

Trying Football Monkeys

Author:Sam Snead

“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.”

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“We think Scott has real good vision and good tools. He's quick and can run. He took care of the football for us and didn't put it on the ground. When he saw a crack, he hit it. His line did a good job providing him with opportunities.”

Thinking Real Care Running Jobs Opportunity Lines Vision Saws Football Tools Cracks Providing Good Job

Author:Glenn Beck

“Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it.”

I Can Eye Action Funny Wonder Hell Football Plenty Nfl Afternoon Pornography American Football Funny American Football Watching Football

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“Footballs, basketballs, microphones, gas and grass... Just some of the few things that J-Ro likes to pass.”

Football Basketball Hip Hop Rap Likes Grass Gas Microphones

Author:J-Ro

“I would think beer and football go hand in hand.”

Thinking Hands Football Beer Hand In Hand

Author:Will Ferrell

“It is important for students to get a - to be exposed to a variety of people. Just like you want football players, you want piccolo players, you want people from all over the country and different backgrounds.”

People Want Important Different Country Player Students Football Like You Backgrounds Variety Exposed Football Player Different Backgrounds

Author:Paul Gigot

“It's the difference between watching a football game between two teams you don't care about, and watching a game where you have some kind of personal identity with one of the teams, if only a huge bet.”

Ifs Kind Two Care Games Differences Team Identity Football Huge Don't Care Football Game Personal Identity

Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“I boxed through college and I played college level football. I was a linebacker.”

Levels Football College Linebackers

Author:Greg Bryk

“Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.”

Years Hope Next Waiting Fans Cry Football Baseball Hockey Next Year Gardener Football Fan Baseball Fans Hockey Fan

Author:Robert Orben

“Power is only too happy to make football bear a diabolical responsibility for stupefying the masses.”

Responsibility Football Bears Mass Diabolical

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“I mean no disrespect to Scottish football, but the Premier League is the biggest stage and highest profile league of all.”

Mean Stage Football Highest League Disrespect Profile Scottish Premier League

Author:Peter Shilton

“I used to have a military officer travelling with me at all times with a suitcase - referred to as the nuclear football - in case it had to be used.”

Used Cases Military Football Nuclear All Time Officers Suitcases

Author:Al Gore

“Austin, Texas, and Columbus, Ohio, are the two toughest communities in which you have to put together a winning football team. They are both big metropolitan areas without professional football and major league baseball to sidetrack them.”

“I love football, but I'm sick of the World Cup. I don't even care about England.”

World Care Football Sick England Cups World Cup I Love Football

Author:Elton John

“There's a hell of a lot of politics in football.”

Hell Football

Author:Tommy Docherty

“This is how we loosen up for the morning announcements. Whoever has the football when the bell rings loses.”

Loses Morning Football Rings Bells Announcements

Author:Tom O'Connor

“I don't follow football, I just love the name Aston Villa. Here in England you have other footballing entities like Manchester and Arsenal and Chelsea”

Names Football England Entity Manchester Arsenal Chelsea Villa

Author:Tom Hanks

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