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“I'm really normal. I play football, go to the beach, drive. We have dogs. I can imagine people calling me a character, but I'm Joe Straight.”

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Author:River Phoenix

“I've grown over the years and I know how to adapt to situations, where I can go into a situation where there's a crowd of people and just take over. But pretty much I'm off to myself. And I'm totally committed to the game of football. That's why I've had so much success.”

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Author:Jerry Rice

“Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes.”

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Author:Wayne Rooney

“You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.”

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Author:Jello Biafra

“Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.”

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Author:Bill Shankly

“Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.”

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Author:Barry Switzer

“Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town.”

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Author:Herschel Walker

“The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player.”

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Author:Ricky Williams

“I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not.”

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Author:Ricky Williams

“I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.”

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Author:Zinedine Zidane

“When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.”

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Author:Terry Bradshaw

“We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it's only us. And we're only responsible to make ourselves happy.”

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Author:Tom Brady

“There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.”

“Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me personally a particularly easy time, but that was OK, that was normal. Most people, it seemed to me, took their turn to be football. Most survived. Some didn't.”

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Book:Straight

Source: Straight

“After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.”

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Book:The Shadow Of The Wind

Source: The Shadow Of The Wind

“Bod said, 'I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of a desert island. I want to play football with people. I want,' he said, and then he paused and he thought. 'I want everything.”

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Book:The Graveyard Book

Source: The Graveyard Book

“Some people--Samad for example--will tell you not to trust people who overuse the phrase "at the end of the day"--football managers, estate agents, salesmen of all kinds--but Archie's never felt that way about it. Prudent use of said phrase never failed to convince him that his interlocutor was getting to the bottom of things, to the fundamentals.”

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Author:Zadie Smith

“People care about my personal life. But really I'm dorky! I drink beer and go to football games. And ya know, sit in my house in a t-shirt on the weekends and play with my dog!”

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Author:Sophia Bush

“One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.”

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Author:E. M. Forster

“If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.”

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Author:Benjamin Carson

“If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.”

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Author:Bear Bryant