"That field goal attempt was so far to the left it nearly decapitated Lyndon LaRouche."
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"When the hell is Warren Moon going to retire? I mean, this guy is older than the cuneiform in Nebuchadnezzar's tomb."
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"My days are so busy with school and football, it's not often that I get out, anyway. But when I do, I like to meet people."
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"I wanted to show off - a simple impulse or drive; in much the same way as some kids wanted to play football, I wanted to show off. Not complicated in that sense, very natural; it just depends on how you want to show off."
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"One of the things that I noticed in war was how difficult it was for our soldiers, at first, to realize that there are no rules to war. Our men were raised in sports, where a referee runs a football game, or an umpire a baseball game, and so forth."
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"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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"I believe that I have a platform because God blessed me with the talent to play football. Having that talent, my job is to be responsible with it."
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"The World Cup in 2010 is going to be the most inspirational thing ever to hit the streets in South Africa. For the first time, the World Cup won't just be something that is happening on the other side of the world think about the excitement-the biggest players, from all over the world, will be playing football in a stadium just round the corner from home."
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"I used to have a military officer travelling with me at all times with a suitcase - referred to as the nuclear football - in case it had to be used."
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"I like the fans, but I don't feel an obligation that I have to be an example to them, like say maybe a baseball player would, or a football player or maybe some other type of musicians. I don't feel I have to really set an example that somebody else has to live up to."
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"We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan."
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"We had enough chances to win the game. In fact we did win it."
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"There are several differences between a footballl game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also there are more injuries at a football game."
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"I'd have loved to have been a footballer. I was always playing football and I enjoyed it much more than tennis to begin with. It's more fun to play in a team, all the parents are there cheering you on."
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"If you look at old football pictures, the jerseys were hanging, the sleeves were dangling, but now everything is tucked and tailored."
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"Basketball players want contact to get a foul called. Slaps on the wrist and bumps on the shoulder are big time to them, and they don't like that. In football, you get that all the time. The whole mental makeup is different."
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"Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law."
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"I never really knew how to throw a football before."
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"I think that when people join clubs as simple as a sorority or a fraternity, a football team, a baseball team, it's just - you want to be in a group. You want to be around people, you want to be with people."
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"In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard."
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