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“Marshall was a pioneering player. As a threat in so many different aspects of football, he revolutionized the way in which the running back position was played. He was the player that I wanted to emulate.”

Way Different Running Wanted Player Position Football Aspect Threat Emulate Pioneering Running Back

Author:Tiki Barber

“Now tell me this. What would you consider the greatest spectator sport in the country today? Would you say it was baseball, basketball, football?... It's politics. That's right, politics. Millions and millions of people following it every day in the newspapers, over the TV and the radio. Now mind you, they wouldn't get mixed up in this themselves for all the tea in China, but they know the names and numbers of all the players. And what they can't tell the coaches about strategy. Oh, you should see some of the letters I get.”

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Author:Frank Nugent

“I do not feel that I have a mandate from the entire world of football - the fans, the players, the clubs, the people who live, breathe and love football.”

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Author:Sepp Blatter

“Football players are busy (with) study halls and tutoring. Well, anyway, at South Carolina they are. I don't know about all these other schools.”

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Author:Steve Spurrier

“There was a long stint during my childhood after I gave up on being a pro football player - were talking sixth grade here - that I strongly considered a future writing and drawing comic books. I have been making stuff up ever since.”

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Author:Adam Ross

“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

“I had to have help getting up these stairs because I've been tackled by so many lions and tigers. Really. I'm like an old football player.”

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Author:Tippi Hedren

“It is not coincidence that at Barcelona we have low-key lifestyles and we have been successful. We know we are football players and not movie stars.”

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Author:Lionel Messi

“My favorite sport is football. I'm a die hard Steelers fan. Favorite players were Hines Ward and Greg Lloyd.”

Hard Dies Sports Player Fans Football My Favorite Favorite Sports Steelers

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“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.”

“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.”

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Author:Orhan Pamuk

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

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Author:Berti Vogts

“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.”

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Author:Thomas Jones

“When I was growing up in Baltimore, the Colts were not just a team that played in the city. It was part of the city. Football players didn't make close to the money they make today and most took jobs in the off-season. Some were mechanics, others worked at furniture stores, and you could find them drinking at a neighborhood watering hole.”

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Author:Barry Levinson

“I think my history as a coach shows I like players who are gifted technically and have courage when it comes to being in possession of a football. That is a key quality for me.”

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Author:Brendan Rodgers

“When you have great players, playing great, well that's great football!”

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Author:John Madden

“Knowing his coach likes him is more important to a player than anything else.”

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Book:Hey, wait a minute, I wrote a book

Source: Hey, wait a minute, I wrote a book

“Football isn't necessarily won by the best players. It's won by the team with the best attitude.”

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Book:What Washington Can Learn From the World of Sports

Source: What Washington Can Learn From the World of Sports

“Not many people like him, he's an angry man. He'd go after his own shadow.”

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Author:Stephen Hunt

“I kissed my first girl when I was 15, and then I lost my virginity when I was 17. So that's pretty good. It was just that when you're in high school, you're sort of forced into the normal world, where you're competing with the football players, just kind of in that world where somebody like me didn't quite fit in.”

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Author:James Mercer

“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 think it's important to cross train. Surfing is a good cross training sport for your shoulders. I don't think I know of any other football player who does it, who can go and paddle out past the sets.”

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Author:Troy Polamalu

“I try to take what's given to me and then mold it to be a better football player.”

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Author:Troy Polamalu

“I feel like I'm a basketball player in a football uniform.”

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Author:Terrell Owens

“The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.”

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Author:Alan Page

“I think one of the most immoral things is college football and basketball, where everybody is making money except the players.”

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Author:Frank Deford

“You know how in sports baseball players, they hit home runs. Football players, they throw and they score touchdowns. I get to do something that very few people get to do - I get to touch the human brain, and every day I get to hit home runs, I get to score touchdowns.”

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Author:Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

“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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Book:Notre Dame Football: The T Formation

Source: Notre Dame Football: The T Formation

“I was a football player at college and dislocated my thumb. I was out for a bit and passed the theatre and saw some lovely drama students walking into an audition for 'Much Ado About Nothing' and thought: 'That's what I'll do when I recover.' I joined that production and was hooked.”

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Author:Clark Gregg

“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'm not pro-owner or pro-player. I am pro-football. I want the game to go on. I want the game to be tough. I don't want the game to be a killer of our players.”

Want Games Player Football Goes On Tough Owners Killers Pro Football

Author:Jim Brown

“The game [football] has moved on a lot but still, ask most players and they will tell you that pre-season isn't their favourite time of the year.”

Years Stills Asks Games Player Football Seasons Moved Favourite Moved On Pre Season

Author:Colin Kazim-Richards

“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

“Italian football is great but for me, for the style of player I am, I found it too tactical, too slow.”

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Author:Djibril Cisse

“I have no hesitation in putting a name to the embodiment of all that I think is best about football. It's Paul Scholes. Players like Denis Law and George Best who I enjoyed so much as team-mates and now, finally, players I have watched closely in the Alex Ferguson era. And in so many ways Scholes is my favourite. I love his nous and conviction that he will find a way to win, to make the killer pass or produce the decisive volley.”

“He is a very complete, spectacular footballer. He always fights for the ball and tries to lose his marker to help his team-mates - either to defend or to have a shot on goal. For any football player in the Premiership, Scholes is a player you want to emulate. I would happily end my career with the medals that Scholes has. I am young and I hope that I will be able to surpass him - but it is not going to be easy.”

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Author:Cesc Fabregas

“Beckham in Paris will certainly be good for shopping. I love this player but he is not the footballer he was. And if he comes to Paris now it will be to do something other than football.”

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Author:Michel Patini

“I was a pretty good soccer player, but it just wasn't for me. I thrive in the intensified atmosphere on a football field.”

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Author:Pat McAfee

“I identified myself through football so when Jason Peter the football player no longer existed, Jason Peter the person was gone as well. Such a huge part of my struggle in life was finding a purpose, trying to find something else that I could be great at.”

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Author:Jason Peter

“So [Polaroid's Dr. Edwin] Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack the code of color vision. The man is a national treasure. I don't understand why people like that can't be held up as models: This is the most incredible thing to be - not an astronaut, not a football player - but this.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“I am more mature. I'm a better football player. I just feel like this is my time.”

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Author:Ricky Williams

“Football is my love. Football is what I'm going to do. I'm a football player first.”

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Author:Tony Gonzalez

“I'm not the prototype wide receiver. But I like to think I'm one hell of a football player.”

Thinking Hell Player Football Wide Football Player Receiver Prototype Wide Receiver

Author:Hines Ward

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

Thinking Way Stills Play Player Football Baseball Texas Football Player Playing Baseball

Author:Adam Dunn

“I want to be remembered as a championship football player.”

Want Player Football Remembered Championship Football Player

Author:Brian Urlacher

“I like to watch good football so I like to watch good players. I like Cristiano Ronaldo, Andres Iniesta, Xavi and Wayne Rooney.”

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Author:Neymar

“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

“High school football in Detroit was not easy at all. There were talented players everywhere.”

School Easy Player Football High School Detroit High School Football

Author:Antonio Gates

“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.”

Want Play Bigs Player Football Balls Selfish Football Player

Author:Jevon Kearse

“Excluding nobody, I'm the best player in the National Football League.”

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Author:Randy Moss

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