"I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough."
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"I'm not pro-owner or pro-player. I am pro-football. I want the game to go on. I want the game to be tough. I don't want the game to be a killer of our players."
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"I had a choice to be lazy or lean - if I hadn't changed, thing probably would catch up with me."
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"I liked to play against all the teams in the National Football League or the American Football League, because they were always a challenge."
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"Peter Weir has just shrugged off an ankle injury"
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"Once again it was Gough who stood firm for Scotland in the air"
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"Football today is far too much a sport for the few who can play it well; the rest of us, and too many of our children, get out exercise from climbing up the seats in stadiums, or from walking across the room to turn on our television sets."
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"I enjoyed it when football crowds in the early days would sing 'All together now' - that was another one. I was also pleased when the movement in America took up 'Give peace a chance' because I had written it with that in mind really."
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"many of the guests will eventually leave the table to watch football on television, which would be a rudeness at any other occasion but is a relief at Thanksgiving and probably the only way to get those people to budge."
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"Messi is much more than being clever. He is a genius who reserves all his expressiveness for football."
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"All the cul-de-sacs are closed for Scotland."
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"[Lennie meets Joe - he works out that she was named after John Lennon] I nod. "Mom was a hippie." This is northern Northern California after all - the final frontier of freakerdom. Just in the eleventh grade we have a girl named Electricity, a guy named Magic Bus, and countless flowers: Tulip, Begonia, and Poppy - all parent-given-on-the-birth-certificate names. Tulip is a two-ton bruiser of a guy who would be the star of out football team if we were the kind of school that has optional morning meditation in the gym"
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"People shy away from it [MMA] because they think it's a brutal, brutal sport, and I've said, 'Guys, MMA is safer than football and boxing,... And people tell me they don't believe it. Am I not the most credible person to give you the answer to that?"
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"The majority of the time I'm at home with my family, I play football three times a week."
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"England are very light up front. Eriksson's decision not to include Jermaine Defoe can be declared an error of judgment, regardless of Rooney's situation. The Swede should have forgone one of his nine midfield players; much will have to go wrong for Jermaine Jenas to get a game."
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"It is like football with coaches, like, 'We're only going to think about the next game.' It is really true, all you think is, 'Okay, we have to make a good next episode.'"
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"Norm Smith personally came and signed me up to the Melbourne Football Club. The fact that I then played cricket for Melbourne Cricket Club - the footy club didn't like it that much."
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"To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's what football is to some guys."
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"The arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL."
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"We're football people, not poets, but obviously I'm disappointed with the result."
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