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“My father wanted me to play pro football, and he didn't like the fact that I'd left school. And he said, "It takes a man to play football. And any fool can go up on the stage and make an ass of himself.”

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Author:Bill Cosby

“Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard.”

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Book:Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)

Source: Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)

“My father watched football with the sound off because he lived in fear of hearing the voice of Howard Cosell.”

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Book:Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature

Source: Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature

“I don't dream football. I dream the American Dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.”

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Author:Barry Sanders

“I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father.”

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Author:Cam Newton

“I think with my hands, it was catching a lot of footballs and working with my father during the summer because he would always make me. My father was a bricklayer so I was a helper. My job was to make sure that he had bricks to lay.”

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Author:Jerry Rice

“I couldn't catch a ball if it had Elmer's Glue all over it. And my father had to be this ex-football star. He didn't know what to tell his friends, so he told them all I had Polio. On Father's Day, I used to limp for him.”

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Author:Matthew West

“I'm so opposite of my profession. No one - particularly my mother and father - ever thought I was going to be a boxer because I always felt that football and baseball were too dangerous. I was just such a quiet kid.”

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Author:Sugar Ray Leonard

“I grew up in Douglasville, Georgia. My father played football for the Atlanta Falcons. We lived a bunch of places when I was younger. I was born in California. We lived in Chicago for a little bit and finally we ended up in Georgia. I grew up playing softball and at the age of nine I decided I was going to be an Olympian.”

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Author:Elana Meyers

“My son plays football so I coach a couple of his teams. My youngest son just started playing last year and I assistant coached for one of his teams. I try to be there as much as I can. I also want to kill the stereotype. I want them to respect me as a man and a father first and then if you like hip hop go buy my album.”

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Author:Rakim

“I love to have fun. I do my own shopping. I do my own yardwork. I like to garden. I like to fish. I like to golf. I'm an outdoorsman. I like to cook. But when I hit the football stadium, I click the switch, because I know I'm there for a job. I get in a whole different mindset when I enter the stadium. But once I leave I'm back to being a father, husband, a friend.”

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Author:Vince Wilfork

“I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.”

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Author:John Malkovich

“Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.”

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Author:Barry Sanders

“Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you - even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman