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• I prefer players not to be too good or clever at other things. It means they concentrate on football.

  Bill Nicholson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Football

• For as concerning football playing, I protest unto you it may be rather called a friendly kind of fight than a play or recreation, a bloody or murmuring practice than a fellowly sport or pastime.

  Philip Stubbs

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  Tags in Football

• Football causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel-picking, murder, homicide, and a great effusion of blood, as daily experiences teaches.

  Philip Stubbs

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• I played English football – soccer – instead of American football, because we couldn’t afford the equipment.

  Walter Marty Schirra Jr

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  Tags in Football

• Agents do nothing for the good of football. I’d like to see them lined up against a wall and machine-gunned …some accountants and solicitors with them.

  Graham Taylor

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  Tags in Football

• I don’t even like football.

  Tom Hooper

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  Tags in Football

• My saddest decision in football was leaving Paul Gascoigne out of the 1998 World Cup finals. But he wasn’t fit enough and once that decision is made, as a manager and a group of players, you forget about who isn’t there and focus on the job.

  Glenn Hoddle

  Topics in Decision

  Tags in Group, Football

• If people feel 4-4-2 is the way forward in international football, they’ll have to wait until I’m out of a job.

  Glenn Hoddle

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  Tags in Football, Wait

• 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.

  Tippi Hedren

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  Tags in Player, Football

• The most deceptive course in football is straight at the goalposts.

  Woody Hayes

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  Tags in Football, Deceptive

• Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.

  Woody Hayes

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  Tags in Football, Jail

• No back in the history of football was ever worth two fumbles a game.

  Woody Hayes

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  Tags in Football, Worth

• I play American football every Saturday, which I find calming.

  Chad Harbach

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  Tags in Football, Saturday

• I don’t miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.

  Alan Hansen

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  Tags in Every Day, Football

• In life as in football, you must keep pressing on till the final whistle.

  Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

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  Tags in Football

• I did not come into football to make money. I had already made millions.

  Alan Sugar

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  Tags in Millions, Football

• Whether people like it or not, you have to say the Old Firm are a major part of Scottish football. I know there is a lot of resentment from other clubs about that, but it’s a fact.

  Walter Smith

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  Tags in Major, Football

• I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.

  Carlos Slim

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  Tags in Baseball, Football

• People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler’s exactly the same: he’s not playing for money any more, he’s playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it’s going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.

  Ian Rush

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  Tags in Enjoyment, Football

• There’s two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.

  Darius Rucker

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  Tags in Football, Waiting