"Football is my job, not my life, but it's a job I'm going to give my all for as long as I'm in it."
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"I led the NFL in attempts the past two years and they really didn’t go out and get a quarterback to help me so I knew it’s going to be all on me again. I could see my mortality as a football player, that I’m not going to be able to do this much longer. It just became obvious to me that playing football for me is not going to be fun, not something I’m going to enjoy and it’s time for me to do something different."
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"Playing in the National Football League, you're told, you know, where to be, when to be there, what to wear, how to be there. Being able to step away from that, I have an opportunity to look deeper into myself and look for what's real."
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"I am more mature. I'm a better football player. I just feel like this is my time."
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"Football is based on desperation. All clubs are desperate in one form or another - desperate to succeed, desperate to survive, desperate to stay where they are, desperate that things get no worse, desperate to arrest the slide."
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"Sven must have neglected to pay tribute to one of those strict Nordic gods. But instead of cursing Eriksson himself, Thor has done a still crueller thing and cursed the England strikers. I can only assume that Eriksson was never informed of this curse, otherwise he might have more than a 17-year-old up his sleeve."
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"The combination of an out-of-control tabloid press and a readership that thrills to the destruction of the England head coach is something no other country can offer. Scolari was driven out; Steve McClaren's personal life made the front pages. Neither of them even held the job. Then there was the fake-sheikhing of Sven-Göran Eriksson. That a newspaper should so brilliantly and deliberately destabilise the national head coach in a World Cup year is something no other sporting nation would consider."
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"Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama."
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"Andrew is an integral part of the team and he is staying at my football club. The reality is I need him to score the goals that will get us promoted."
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"No score in the other game betwen top club and bottom club, Switzerland and Georgia."
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"He runs a very tightly knit ship"
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"Football players are misunderstood. They arent the dumb jocks people think they are."
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"She's a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood."
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"Do you play football?' Brandon asks. 'No.' 'Baseball?' 'Nope.' Brandon is on a roll and won't stop until he's found the answer he's looking for. 'Tennis?' 'That would be a nada' 'Then what sport do you play?' Carlos puts down his food. Oh, no. He's got a rebellious gleam in his eye as he says, 'The horizontal tango.' ...Alex stands and says through chlenched teeth, 'Carlos let's talk. In private. Ahora.' ....Brandon turns to my dad with big, innocent eyes. 'Daddy, do you know how to do the horizontal tango?"
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"Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football."
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"Whether we meditate individually or collectively, there is one thing we absolutely must do: we have to meditate consciously. Making an unconscious effort is like forcing oneself to play football in spite of one's utmost unwillingness. One plays, but gets no joy. Conscious effort is like playing football most willingly. One gets real joy. Similarly, conscious meditation gives us inner Delight from the soul."
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"On Platini's presidential watch... he has to balance all the leagues, all the dreams and needs of hundreds of clubs across his continent."
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"Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football."
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"More than anything I want to be fit so I don't get out of breath when I play football with the kids."
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"We're a country here, that if you take a picture of what America looks like, you can do It in a football stadium or a basketball court and you see all different kinds of Americans There. We're pretty proud of that, the different looking Americans that are still Americans."
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