"Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners."
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"I watch NFL football on Sundays. I enjoy gaming with friends, meaning role-playing games; I still enjoy going to conventions and traveling."
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"Only in football is long-term injury the result not of accidents but of the game played properly."
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"Italians have a very closed life. Football is all their life is."
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"It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight because it is a sham-fight; thus most of us know by this time that the Party System has been popular only in the sense that a football match is popular."
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"Astonishing times. Who would have imagined that the Crazy Gang would yield a Hollywood film star (Vinny Jones), a British television ever-present (John Fashanu) and now a televised African dance champion?"
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"I think that in any argument about right or wrong in football, a reference to Don Revie's Leeds United is the nuclear option. There is, quite simply, nowhere to go after that. There has never been a more horrible football team. The Leeds of the Seventies were found guilty, week in, week out, of crimes against humanity."
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"I'd never allow myself to let myself call myself a coward."
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"His football does not seem to suffer by all of this going on around him. You look at his passing and he makes it look so simple. When he passes the ball, it always seems to go where he wants it to go. That sounds simple, but believe me, it is not. (on David Beckham)"
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"In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them."
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"I’d say I was a tomboy... I took wood chop in high school and I was very into volleyball and football, and [was] very unaware of anything girly for a long time."
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"I've grown up watching football my whole life."
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"I can pick up any sport pretty quickly - believe me, I know how to throw a football."
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"I don't think there's any question that the UFL or any other league that wants to challenge the NFL can have an impact. The demand for professional football is off the charts."
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"I like college football, but I'm a huge college basketball fan. I could sit and watch every game of March Madness and be happy. That could be a vacation."
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"Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them."
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"Football is at least as 'gay' as rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and the film '300.'"
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"There are times when I'm watching an NFL quarterback struggling to get through the game, and I get bitter to some extent."
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"I've been fortunate and blessed to further my career in the Arena Football League, and I've had a good time doing it."
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"Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football."
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