"Hell, no! A tie is like kissing your sister!"
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"That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you."
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"I run angry. Football allows me to take out some of my pain on the field."
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"Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall."
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"My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football."
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"It was about being wanted, it was about winning, and it was about my passion for the game. I just loved it. I absolutely loved to compete and to step out onto that football field with my teammates."
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"There is no one quite as popular in any form of football as the backup QB."
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"In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard."
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"We're so concerned about being polite in society, and rightfully so, that it carries over onto a football team. But on a good football team, they are your friends, but first and foremost they have to be good teammates."
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"Let's face it, you have to have a slightly recessive gene that has a little something to do with the brain to go out on the football field and beat your head against other human beings on a daily basis."
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"All of West Ham's away victories have come on opponents' territory this season"
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"In football, you can never say anything is certain. The benchmark is 38-40 points. That has always been the case. That will never change."
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"It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques."
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"but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game"
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"I think the locker room is a huge part of the football team and often is a part thats overlooked. The chemistry in your locker room has a lot to do with how youre going to go out there and perform."
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"If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds."
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"But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody."
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"Football is one-third offense, one-third defense, and one-third special teams."
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"International football is the continuation of war by other means."
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"Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings."
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