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“Being a footballer is not just about wearing the shirt and playing football on the pitch. You have to be clean, you have to do right things, you have to show courage, you have to show many many things you know. I always say that you play the same way on the pitch as you do in life.”

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Author:Emmanuel Petit

“I think my boys handled it pretty much the same way with their children, but my grandsons all ended up playing football or lacrosse.”

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Author:Jack Nicklaus

“If I wasn't playing football, I'd be a juvenile probation officer.”

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Author:Brandon Marshall

“An important mentor for me, in terms of teaching me that there's a right way and a wrong way to do things, was probably my football coach. And playing football was one of the first times in my life that I realized nothing is given to you. You have to work really hard.”

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Author:Kenny Chesney

“I always wanted to be a one-club man, I always wanted to play for Liverpool. If I had gone out of the team in my twenties or early thirties I would've left because I love playing football.”

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Author:Jamie Carragher

“I have to say, Any Given Sunday was good, but it was too ambitious. You can't do everything in three hours. It went on through ownership issues, quarterback issues, the running back issues, LT issues, and all that, even the coach issues. It was too much. Whereas, Playmakers says, Yeah, you got all those problems, but my god, you're playing football, you're doing the best thing in the world. You're playing football, you're having fun, you're getting paid to play a game. Well, with all the bad things about Hollywood all the drug use, all that, it's still a pretty good life.”

“In 2008, when I was wrapped up a very toxic relationship, I lived out of my car for about four months to get away. And what I learned about myself in the process is that sometimes a safety net isn't really that safe; it's what keeps you from flying. That year I went from playing football to being a football player. Football wasn't paying my bills, but people didn't really know how bad it was. That was the one place in the world that when everything else was chaos, I could be great. I think we all have that place where we experience greatness. Football definitely saved my life.”

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Author:Jennifer Welter

“Especially in this business of football you got to get on your knees multiple times a day, just thanking God. I pray while I'm on the field because He has to be with me. One injury away from being done from playing football for the rest of my life or just that fast it can happen. So I just always got to pray for that covering. Make sure He's with me out there making plays with me. God wants to be involved in everything that you do. And I just try to involve Him. And that's what God said to do, to help build up His kingdom.”

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Author:Chris Harris, Jr.

“I'm a very private person, and you have a lot of people looking into your personal life, away from football. That's the one thing that I don't like, but I always remember how lucky we are that we're playing football.”

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Author:Frank Lampard

“Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line.”

“I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.”

“I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.”

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Author:Ed O'Neill

“Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.”

“Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.”

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Author:Wayne Rooney

“Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.”

Author:Mike Singletary

“I loved playing football. In this particular match the ball happened to hit my right eye, the only one which I could see light and colour with.”

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Author:Andrea Bocelli

“I always knew I would sing. I just didn't know if I would be successful or not. But I sang at school, I sang at parties, I sang at church. Everyone always asked me to sing. I'd be playing football with my friends and my parents would ask me to sing for their guests. I was never very happy about that because I wanted to play football.”

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Author:Andrea Bocelli

“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

“When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.”

“I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.”

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Author:Dee Dee Myers

“You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.”

“I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that's playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time.”

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Author:Ronaldinho

“The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.”

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Author:Johan Cruijff

“I'd give all the champagne I've ever drunk to be playing alongside him in a big European match at Old Trafford.”

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Author:George Best

“I've felt a little tired, but I'm only 24. I love playing football. That's my job and that's what I love doing.”

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Author:David Beckham

“Whether we meditate individually or collectively, there is one thing we absolutely must do: we have to meditate consciously. Making an unconscious effort is like forcing oneself to play football in spite of one's utmost unwillingness. One plays, but gets no joy. Conscious effort is like playing football most willingly. One gets real joy. Similarly, conscious meditation gives us inner Delight from the soul.”

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Author:Sri Chinmoy

“Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.”

“If you're mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It's about the same.”

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Author:Bob Golic

“At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.”

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Book:Paper Lion: Confessions of a last-string quarterback

Source: Paper Lion: Confessions of a last-string quarterback

“This is what you should do, let it rest. I'm playing football for LSU. I'm preparing for R-Kansas. I'm preparing for the next game, and the next game after that.”

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Author:Les Miles

“When I finish playing football, I would like to work with kids and sleep!”

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Author:Michael Strahan

“Sophomore year, I got hit in the stomach playing football, and I was out of school for four months. I was in the hospital for two and then out of school for two.”

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Author:Chad Michael Murray

“Gisele Bundchen is a bit of a jock. 1 of my fave shoots is her playing football”

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Author:Anna Wintour

“What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of playing. And to try to improve all aspects of my personality that can help me get near this ideal way of playing football.”

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Author:Arsene Wenger

“There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but youve got to work hard to do it.”

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Author:Dean Cain

“I had concussions as a kid playing football and basketball, and know what it feels like and to have someone say 'Just rub some dirt on it, and get back in there.'”

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Author:Billy Corgan

“My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best.”

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Author:Rickey Henderson

“Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.”

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Author:Burt Bacharach

“Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.”

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Author:Eric Cantona

“I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.”

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Author:Eric Cantona

“There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So many differences that people don't realize. It's not just about playing football and getting paid to do it. There's a lot of things that you have to deal with.”

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Author:Robert Griffin III

“Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet.”

“My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.”

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Author:Ian McShane

“Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.”

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Author:Goran Ivanisevic

“Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.”

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Author:Johan Cruijff

“I am not a man of many words, but I can honestly say that playing football is all I have ever wanted to do and to have had such a long and successful career at Manchester United has been a real honour. This was not a decision that I have taken lightly but I feel now is the right time for me to stop playing. To have been part of the team that helped the Club reach that 19th title is a great privilege.”

“I am not a man of many words, but I can honestly say playing football is all I have ever wanted to do.”

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Author:Paul Scholes

“I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends.”

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Author:Dennis Bergkamp

“I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.”

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Author:Alan Shearer

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