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“I mean I was very shy but I was also very extroverted because I was doing plays. I'd been doing plays since I was a little kid. But, I did feel like an outsider because I went to like a 'college-prep' kind of high school that had a really big football team and was known for its program so I was like this weird boy that did plays.”

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Author:John C. Reilly

“Football is what you do, but it's not who you are. It's a big part of who you are. Part of who you are is you're a football player. It's your profession. It's a game you love to play. It's a game I love to play.”

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Author:Andrew Luck

“Football is definitely a team sport. Without one person doing the right thing, the whole team falls. At Navy and in lacrosse, the off-the-field leadership comes into play, you know so if one person is slacking off, weve got everyone making sure everyone is pulling their own weight. Its like that in football too.”

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Author:Sean Price

“I wanted to play football. It was what I did best at school and I'm pretty sporty, so that was the idea. Music was always a hobby, innit. I was more ahead with football.”

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Author:Tinchy Stryder

“I'd have loved to have been a footballer. I was always playing football and I enjoyed it much more than tennis to begin with. It's more fun to play in a team, all the parents are there cheering you on.”

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Author:Andy Murray

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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.”

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Author:Moses Malone

“I don't play golf competitively. I tell everybody that I cheat so they won't gamble with me. That's why you can't watch football. Everybody's gambling. They don't want to watch the game; they watch the spread.”

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Author:Jack Nicholson

“I think I've proven I can build a team that plays a way of football that excites and challenges at the top end of the table.”

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Author:Brendan Rodgers

“I've always been quite an active person especially when I was younger. When I was in primary school, I used to play lots of sports. I was a sprinter and I did basketball and swimming and Gaelic football and things like that. So I always thought, I guess, that it would be fun to incorporate that much physical activity and work into a dramatic piece.”

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Author:Saoirse Ronan

“Football is a whole skill to itself. A whole world. A whole universe to itself. Me love it because you have to be skilful to play it! Freedom! Football is freedom.”

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Author:Bob Marley

“Football is part of I, When I play the world wakes up around me”

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Author:Bob Marley

“I'm a big fan of London in the summertime. English people are dependent on weather to change our attitudes, and, provided it's a decent summer, everyone's spirits are uplifted and the whole place is in bloom. It's a magical transformation. London in the summer, going to see bands play outside, watching football.”

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Author:Ed Westwick

“When I was a child I had a dream to become a football player. I always played as I played when I was a child. I tried to improve. I never dreamt of becoming a professional football player, I dreamed just to play with the best players in the best team. I never dreamed to be paid to play. I would have paid to play an FA Cup Final in front of 80,000 people in Wembley. I just tried to play the wonderful game that football is. So, I hope young players will still have this dream.”

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Author:Eric Cantona

“I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“I'm going to have my family after I play football.”

Play Football My Family

Author:Terrell Owens

“The first and foremost requisite of a good football player is that he must have a burning desire to play the game. There is absolutely no substitute for this.”

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“I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.”

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Author:Lou Holtz

“I used to like Barbra Streisand films. It was Funny Girl that really turned me on, in a sense, to acting. I remember it specifically being a rainy Saturday afternoon. I couldnt play football, so I stayed in, and I watched Funny Girl.”

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Author:Sean Harris

“When I'm not working out, playing football or working with Vita Coco, I'm a video game nerd. I love playing video games. I'm really good at FIFA. I'm not one of those guys that uses Barcelona or Real Madrid to win. My skills are real, so I don't need a loaded team to dominate. You don't want to play me in FIFA.”

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Author:Giovani Bernard

“Everyone thinks footballers have it easy and at this time of year see loads of pictures of players relaxing on beaches and in bars but what they don't see is most of them will be doing their own fitness regimes. If you don't you will get back and you will be off the pace, might get injured and won't play football matches.”

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Author:Colin Kazim-Richards

“It's a group of guys that put their mind to going out and playing great football. Everybody that needed to step up, stepped up. Everybody that needed to make a play, made a play and that's what it's all about.”

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Author:Kurt Warner

“All religions, they play football - even nowadays all girls and women have the right to play football in cultures like the Arabic countries in the Muslim they play football.”

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Author:Sepp Blatter

“There weren't sidewalks to skateboard on and malls to hang out in. There wasn't anything to do. And I was too scrawny to play football, and so I decided I was just gonna sit at the piano, because it made more sense.”

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Author:John Fullbright

“When I was a kid, I'd watch pro football on TV and I'd see someone make a play and I'd say, 'I wish that could be me.' But then I'd have to wonder, 'Could I make that big play?'”

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Author:Terrell Owens

“It would be great to not have any injuries and just go out and play football and have fun ... But in life there are adversities, and it all just depends on how you overcome them.”

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Author:Donovan McNabb

“Tight end is one of the hardest positions to play in football. It's right up there with quarterback and cornerback. You have to have the skills of a wide receiver and the strength of an offensive lineman, and it's not easy to balance those two.”

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Author:Tony Gonzalez

“I love football. The games are a pure rush. By the time I'm done playing, I want to be among the best tight ends ever to play the game.”

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Author:Tony Gonzalez

“It doesn't matter that I play football. Anybody can make a difference in life.”

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Author:Tony Gonzalez

“Basketball was always my first love, but once I had a good year as a senior, I figured the next step was to play college football.”

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Author:Ben Roethlisberger

“I know I probably never will win the league MVP or passing title. That is not why I play the game. I try to win football games and championships.”

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Author:Ben Roethlisberger

“All I have to do is play football now.”

Play Football

Author:Vince Young

“I really find myself doing a lot better when I'm injured, so sometimes I look forward to it. This is the style that I play-being physical, running the football, making adjustments on the pass, avoiding the rush. Those sorts of things go with the total package of a quarterback.”

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Author:Steve McNair

“At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am.”

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Author:Adam Dunn

“I really enjoyed high-school football, but I didn't really enjoy college football. I liked to play the games, but I didn't like the practice. In baseball, I enjoy the practice almost as much as the games.”

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Author:Todd Helton

“I like to think of myself as a regular guy, except I play football for a living. I try not to be an arrogant turd out there.”

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Author:Brian Urlacher

“Play more than one sport in high school. If you play, say, football and basketball, you can learn to be physical and you can take those physical aspects of both sports and become better in both sports. Basketball players use some of the same skills football players do and vice versa.”

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Author:Antonio Gates

“The stuff I went through at Auburn? It didn't matter anymore. I just wanted to play football.”

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Author:Brandon Jacobs

“A lot of people wanted me to play college football, but I wanted to get started playing pro baseball.”

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Author:Matt Holliday

“I'm a selfish football player. Each time the ball is snapped, I tell myself that I want to make that tackle, make that big play.”

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Author:Jevon Kearse

“I'm a guy here to play football. I'm not here for photos or newspapers or TV shows or trophies or awards. I'm not into all that.”

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Author:Randy Moss

“That's where the challenge has been. Balancing football and life. Trying not to replay every play in my head while I'm with my family. Sometimes, I've done it well. Other times, I haven't.”

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Author:Chad Pennington

“I was a college football fanatic, and I wanted to play, not sit on the sidelines. It's tough when you know you're just a project.”

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Author:Chad Pennington

“Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you're a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you're going to get at it. Acting's no different.”

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Author:Tom Sizemore

“You have to be on the pitch to play football.”

Play Football

Author:Gerry Francis

“Thomas Gravesen thinks he's broke his hand, but I told him that you play football with your feet and not your hand.”

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Author:Gordon Strachan

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