"Why do you hang out with him?" "We're teammates." Ahhh. And if blood was thicker than water, then football, evidently, would congeal in one's veins."
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"As a man and as a sports figure, you have to set limits and set boundaries on what can and cannot happen. Once you do that, your family will start to respect you. 'OK, I get it, he's all about football and handling his business,' and that's what I've done. In the past, when I was a young man - a younger man - it was hard for me to say no. Since I'm older, wiser, I know how to handle people, know how to say no, know when something is right and something wrong. I use proper judgment."
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"when you're fifteen and somebody tells you they love you, you're gonna believe them. And when you're fifteen don't forget to look before you fall. In your life you'll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team. I didn't know it at fifteen."
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"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials."
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"All I have to do is play football now."
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"There's no doubt about it; playing football and how tough it is on the body afterwards."
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"I was always a big fan of waiting a year of two to groom an NFL quarterback; let him learn and mature."
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"Well, yes, but it's not about the football." "You're saying that football is not about football?" "It's the sharing," she said. "It's being part of the crowd. It's chanting together. It's all of it. the whole thing."
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"You don't have to win it, just don't lose it."
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"To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard."
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"There's nothing wrong with ankles. But only if you're playing football in the park."
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"I don't follow football, I just love the name Aston Villa. Here in England you have other footballing entities like Manchester and Arsenal and Chelsea"
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"I played football in high school, I played baseball when I was younger, things like that, but I think it was the passion I had for track where you want to do an individual sport and be the best, I think - there's nothing that can replace that."
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"I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football."
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"The National Football league is on the wrong side of history."
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"I'm watching a lot of the football."
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"Someone wanted me to write a profile for ESPN about the commissioner of baseball, and I said, "He's just some suit! Some Republican. No!" I mean if you want me to write about baseball, boxing or football, I'll write about those things because I watch them, I think about them a lot and I like them. But I don't want to write about Barry Bonds."
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"Why do people criticise his intelligence when he can do something as miraculous as that?"
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"I played a lot of football when I was younger. I'm a good receiver, actually."
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"The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun."
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