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As a physician, I'm somewhat an advocate of patients. How come, before Mike Webster, no NFL player was told or knew that there was an intrinsic risk of brain damage from playing football?
- Bennet Omalu
#Football
It is very important that football can see beyond religion but FIFA does not just ignore its impact.
- Sepp Blatter
#Football
My whole family is from Santos. Since I was little, I grew up watching this. I was becoming a player and I always dreamed of playing for Santos, but I went to Manchester. I got older, then everyone said, 'Why won't you play for our Santos?' I want to go, but I can't now. I want to play football in Europe, and then I'll go.
- Andreas Pereira
#Football
I am a happy man. I am no longer out on the pitch but I still live in the football world.
- Eusebio
#Football
I've spent my entire adulthood in pro football.
- Jason Witten
#Football
I really enjoy the football season.
- Jimmie Johnson
#Football
Boxing is like any other sport, like football, basketball, whatever, where there's a strategy you stick to in order to win.
- Demetrius Andrade
#Football
I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.
- Pete Rose
#Football
I did all kinds of things as a young person to try to make money. I had a chicken operation - I sold chickens. I can remember going to high school football games as a ten-year-old and gathering Coca-Cola bottles, 'cause you'd turn them in and get a nickel. I wanted not to remain idle.
- Charles Schwab
#Football
Football is a fickle game - if I do get the jeers and the boos I'm just going to take it as them missing me playing down there because I miss Southampton. I miss the fans and I miss the good times we had down there. Of course I do.
- Adam Lallana
#Football
I was a typical boy growing up, even though I wasn't particularly outgoing or chatty. I loved running around and playing football. My siblings and I are only a year apart in age, so we played together. Sometimes it was good being so close, sometimes it wasn't - like when they'd steal my candy and toys.
- Verne Troyer
#Football
I used to tell the players that professional football is a part-time profession. I used to tell them it gets you ready for your life's work.
- Chuck Noll
#Football
Football is a sport of paradox. It requires reaction, not reflection. Yet you must use your mind to calculate, to anticipate - to think and not think at the same time.
- Dhani Jones
#Football
I wouldn't have went to school if I wasn't playing football.
- Blueface
#Football
I need an anchor and I need to sort out one side of my life, so if I can sort my football out, even if it is abroad, then that will help in the long term.
- Danny Drinkwater
#Football
I wear the Argentina jersey with all the values I learned from my home and growing through football.
- Willy Caballero
#Football
I live for football and consume it whenever I can.
- Willy Caballero
#Football
But my instinct as a football player is always to try and grow and try and improve and I think I can do this by joining a big club such as Manchester City.
- Willy Caballero
#Football
If you walked into my house, there wouldn't be one thing to do with football in there.
- Robert Green
#Football
I have been around football a long time and know a lot about it, so if I have an opinion and don't voice it, then it is a bit of a waste.
- Robert Green
#Football
The closest you are going to get to playing international football is the Champions League.
- Robert Green
#Football
That's football. It's like in any walk of life: you get some people who are going to try more than others.
- Robert Green
#Football
Eventually, I'd like to have some sort of role like a chief executive in a football club.
- Robert Green
#Football
Oftentimes, even myself as I've come through my entire career from high school all the way up here, everything has been football, football, football. And then you realize that life is much bigger than this game, especially when you start thinking about life after football and what you want to leave behind.
- Malcolm Jenkins
#Football
I'm married to football, baseball is my girlfriend.
- Deion Sanders
#Football
In Holland you go into amateur teams, come up through the ranks and are generally spotted for senior or professional football. At 16, I had made it into a men's amateur team, and was picked up professionally from there.
- Jaap Stam
#Football
Of course, when you play football yourself you can think you want to become a manager but it does not make you a good manager.
- Jaap Stam
#Football
It's football, you work with humans and humans make mistakes. We will do everything in our power to prepare the players so they know to make the right decision at the right times.
- Jaap Stam
#Football
If I hadn't made it as a footballer I would have been an electrician. I studied to be an electrician even though I was progressing at football because you never know at that stage if you are going to be there for sure.
- Jaap Stam
#Football
The whole object of the players' association is to try and make sure that any individual is able to capitalise on his ability, particularly in football, which is a very short career.
- Gordon Taylor
#Football
The Football Association have always acted more as a referee than a governor. And the FA, aware the Premier League provide players for the England team, have always had too gentle a hand on the tiller. The result is that the Premier League are the tigers in the English football jungle everybody's scared of.
- Gordon Taylor
#Football
You don't hear a film director saying 'Money mustn't go out of the industry' to actors. You don't hear a concert promoter saying 'We must make sure that money doesn't go out of our industry' to Elton John. Some people in football seem to think, 'Never mind the players, let's get on with the game.'
- Gordon Taylor
#Football
We are trying to educate players to use their spare time to train for a life after football, which comes to everybody. You can lead a lot of horses to water, but you can't make them all drink.
- Gordon Taylor
#Football
Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.
- Jeanne Moreau
#Football
We can't see every small detail in football.
- Mauricio Pochettino
#Football
Success in football is impossible without a good school.
- Sergey Galitsky
#Football
We haven't rushed to set up targets, either in business or in football. Our goal was to understand how to act and then to move gradually.
- Sergey Galitsky
#Football
I only get to experience this college football once. I want to live it up while I can.
- Deshaun Watson
#Football
The game of football is something I dearly love, and there's nothing else I'd rather be doing.
- Dak Prescott
#Football
These kids are the future of the National Football League. They're the next generation that will be playing high school football, NCAA football, and some even to the pros.
- Troy Vincent
#Football
The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.
- Vicente del Bosque
#Football
No one knows anything about economics. It's the great lie of the economists. By contrast in football people might have contrasting opinions, each of which has some validity. But the economists always speak in conditionals - what a mess.
- Vicente del Bosque
#Football
I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little.
- Vicente del Bosque
#Football
We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.
- Vicente del Bosque
#Football
Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.
- Vicente del Bosque
#Football
The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.
- John Thorn
#Football
You can go back into equestrianism any time - we've got a yard back home in Sheffield, and the horses are still there. They're just on hold for the moment. I can't ride and play football; it's too much of a risk.
- Millie Bright
#Football
I passed the 11-plus, but it was decided that I should take the Common Entrance exam to Monmouth School, the nearest independent. I was never entirely comfortable there, as they didn't have girls, and they played rugby instead of football.
- Saul David
#Football
Initially when I was looking to enter football I was looking at clubs in Italy or France or Spain, a mid-table club where I could develop players and eventually sell them.
- Andrea Radrizzani
#Football
If we look at Sky, the clientele and subscription, I think you see the consumer is tired of paying for a bundle. To pay £70 for 200 channels when maybe they just want to watch sports or football, and maybe some movies or TV series.
- Andrea Radrizzani
#Football
For Leeds, we have a history of being 'dirty Leeds' and we actually channel that. We want to play great football and we are doing that but we also need to fight every time we go on to the pitch.
- Andrea Radrizzani
#Football
I want to help Leeds United return to the level our history and fans deserve. When I came to the club, I gave myself three years to deliver that and my vision remains the same: return the club to its rightful place in the Premier League and make our fans, players and staff proud of their football team.
- Andrea Radrizzani
#Football
For me, trying the NFL and trying this football thing, because of the home and what I went through in there, to me, it was no big deal. It was just another opportunity for me. I didn't see that bigger, grandiose picture of it, I just took it one day at a time, like how I took it in the group home.
- Jimmy Graham
#Football
Always, you have these objectives when you are young. You think you can be the best, and that's what I have to be because, if not, I'm not playing football.
- Gerard Deulofeu
#Football
In football, you cannot only play because of your quality and talent. Defence is a must.
- Gerard Deulofeu
#Football
The emails and the tweets and the Facebook posts and the fan mail that we get from young people all over America that are on the football team or on the hockey team are so touching. They tell me, 'Hey, this is me. I still have to remain in the closet, but your role in '90210' makes me feel better the way being gay is being portrayed.'
- Trevor Donovan
#Football
Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.
- Alan Shearer
#Football
Football in Italy is like a wonderful sickness, because people are infected with this love for the sport from childhood to old age.
- Dries Mertens
#Football
Football in Italy is crazy and the people are very crazy, too, so I think we are used to it.
- Dries Mertens
#Football
There's a loyalty attached to football, and it is more communal than theatre. If you go to the football, it is part of the structure of your life. For lots of people, theatre is a treat.
- George MacKay
#Football
Football is one of the most popular sports in the country, and there are many reasons for this. You can take so much from football and apply it to life in general. Just some of those things are goal-setting, preparation, teamwork, perseverance and discipline.
- Philip Rivers
#Football
It was easy to get wrapped up in some of the negative stuff, but obviously I chose not to. I didn't want to get in trouble and end up in prison where I can't play football. It was as simple as that.
- Jermain Defoe
#Football
It doesn't matter who you are, football's a business. At some stage you're going to have to leave a football club; that's just normal.
- Jermain Defoe
#Football
I don't think I could ever describe myself as unlucky because people would look at me, playing football for a living, and say: 'Are you winding me up?'
- Jermain Defoe
#Football
When you talk about kicking racism out of football, people automatically assume you are talking about on the terraces and on the football field. But all racists have to do is keep their mouth shut for 90 minutes and they're fine.
- John Barnes
#Football
If I continue to work as a coach, it is because my passion and love for football, for the players, is still there.
- Claudio Ranieri
#Football
When I came on the tour, I thought, 'Why don't they treat tennis players the same way they look at football players?' Because I've got news for you: when they are on the pitch, they are not saying, 'Hello, how are you?' out there.
- John McEnroe
#Football
I was surrounded by classical music, art and ballet all these things. But they also had a football field and it was at the conservatoire I decided to be a footballer.
- Carlos Carvalhal
#Football
I am 30 years old and you don't get to play football forever. I feel lucky to be given this opportunity by Shanghai as it is a big club in Asia.
- Aaron Mooy
#Football
I am very happy to be here in Manchester. It's a real joyful moment for me. I've always dreamt of playing in English football. When Manchester United was mentioned I didn't have to think twice.
- Eric Bailly
#Football
I was getting well paid but I never started playing football for the money.
- Rickie Lambert
#Football
The 1966 World Cup was the high point of my career. We may have lost the semi-final, but Portuguese football was a big winner.
- Eusebio
#Football
I am just one of many who have played their part in Argentina's football history.
- Mario Kempes
#Football
It's nice to come and play my football here at The Hawthorns.
- Dwight Gayle
#Football
My name's Mohamed, a lot of people know I'm Muslim, but I'm here because of my football talents, not because I'm Muslim.
- Mohamed Sanu
#Football
I played club football with a traveling team since I was 8 years old. I also played basketball and baseball, so I was competing on the athletic fields the entire year.
- Jesse Palmer
#Football
I always leave for the stadium on the second bus. Never the first. And I have to have new shoes - brand new shoes - for every game. Same with gloves. But I don't use my gloves in pregame, so the first football I catch with my new gloves each game is the first ball I catch in the game.
- A. J. Green
#Football
I'm closer to being happy. I'm doing things that make me happy. In football I loved to practice and I loved to play, but I hated to be in meetings, hated to talk to the media, hated to have cameras in my face, hated to sign autographs. I hated to do all those things.
- Ricky Williams
#Football
Head coach is the leader. He's the guy that sets the tone for the whole organization as far as the structure of the football side of things.
- Jason Witten
#Football
When I'm done with football, I want to be done with football. I don't want to have, Oh, did I leave too early?
- Terrell Suggs
#Football
A lot of sprinters aren't football players. I'm a football player. That's the difference between me and a sprinter. My knowledge of the game. I'm totally different than any other track guy.
- Marquise Goodwin
#Football
There's not one person that sets the standard better to be a New York Football Giant than Eli Manning.
- Davis Webb
#Football
I've been really, really fortunate, everything from football on has been icing on the cake, so I'm living my dream.
- Jesse Palmer
#Football
This is football. This is my job. At the same time there's a good balance you can have with having fun and getting prepared and ready for the game.
- Devlin Hodges
#Football
I get enthused by good football because I love this sport. I don't care about which jersey the teams are wearing or which sponsor pays them.
- Ralph Hasenhuttl
#Football
I think success is the biggest challenge you have to handle in the National Football League; that's something we talk about a lot.
- Mike McCarthy
#Football
I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.
- Hayden Fry
#Football
You can go to the pictures or read a book, but football constantly comes back into your mind. It's not a job, it's a life. It takes up your time, thoughts and energy and it can damage relationships with those around you.
- Howard Wilkinson
#Football
It's grossly unfair to judge Walter Payton solely on the yards he gains. He is a complete football player, better than Jim Brown, better than O.J. Simpson.
- Jim Finks
#Football
Of all the things people have taught me regarding life lessons or anything that would benefit me, I don't think anything helped me learn more about life than football. You go through so many different things: adversity, how to handle adversity, how to handle success, how to lead, how to be a teammate, how to communicate.
- Josh McDaniels
#Football
Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
- Bo Jackson
#Football
I think Nick Saban is the greatest college football coach in history over there in Tuscaloosa.
- Charles Barkley
#Football
I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games.
- Bo Jackson
#Football
My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
- Bo Jackson
#Football
I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.
- Wally Schirra
#Football
I love to take risks, I love to travel, and I'm very outdoor-sy, so any girl who can pick up a football and throw a spiral will definitely catch my attention.
- Kellan Lutz
#Football
It wasn't like I ever said, 'I want to be an actor.' I was in the right place at the right time. I went to a local drama group because I found football on the weekends too cold - which is highly ironic because I've had some of the coldest experiences of my life filming 'Game of Thrones.'
- Isaac Hempstead Wright
#Football
Every vacation was taking my brother and I to camp, whether it was football camp, wrestling camp, or whatever it was.
- Sean McDermott
#Football
If you take golf, you have a teacher for the drive, a teacher for the approach play, and a teacher for the putt. That's three specialist coaches for one player. In football, one coach looks after 25 players.
- Johan Cruyff
#Football
Top-level football gives you fame and money, but it takes away a lot, too.
- Dimitar Berbatov
#Football
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