Football Quotes — Page 22

Rapper, Actor

“Everybody thinks the grass is greener on the other side. If you talk to most artists, they think they can play something, you know, "If I had stayed playing football in high school, if I had been doing basketball..." Everybody's got their fantasies and thinks the grass is greener. It's not. It's not.”

School Football Basketball

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Neil Lennon

Footballer

“As a player I won things, had a special 10 years under Martin O'Neill [at Leicester and Celtic] and played in some great teams, beating Manchester United and getting to the last 16 of the Champions League. As a manager, I don't know if I will top this; I hope I do, because I am still young and am still learning. But this is up there with anything I have achieved, not just in my football career but in my life.”

Player Team Football

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Laurent Blanc

Football Manager, Former Player

“Women who talk about football tactics, it's beautiful. I find that fantastic. And you know what a 4-3-3 is, right?”

Beautiful Football Tactics

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Geoff Thompson

Author

“Remember, if you don't have a goal you're not playing football, you're just kicking a ball around the park.”

Goal Football Balls

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Lawrence Taylor

Football Player

“All you can do is put your story out there enough times and hope that a couple will understand that no matter what type of athlete you are - there were no athletes better than I was, there was no one who had more going for him than I did, there was no athlete stronger mentally than I was.”

Motivational Football Couple

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Frank Thomas

Artist

“I always took my workouts serious because I have a football background. I came from football, so when I got to baseball, I continued my football workouts in the offseason.”

Football Baseball Workout

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

“We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.”

Sports Football Soccer

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Mark Russell

Political Satirist

“You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game.”

Games Football Baseball

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Joey Barton

Footballer

“England did nothing in that World Cup, so why were they bringing books out? 'We got beat in the quarter-finals. I played like s**t. Here's my book.'”

Book Stupid Football

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