"My dad means a lot to me. He's the one who put a football in my hands."
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"Beyond the touchline there is nothing."
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"The one thing I learned early on as a football player is people have their opinions, and I can't change them. But I can show them what they're missing."
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"Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are -- retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The only thing more debased is the surrounding mob of drunken monkeys howling the gorillas on."
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"Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys."
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"Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase."
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"Anytime that the Arizona Cardinals play football, I scream at the top of my lungs at the television. And I have certain dances that I do."
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"It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players."
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"If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time."
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"Football isn't necessarily won by the best players. It's won by the team with the best attitude."
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"I haven't seen someone so overmatched since Mike Tyson tried to recite the alphabet."
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"You guys line up alphabetically by height."
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"It felt like I'd been playing second-string football for a long time, when, suddenly, I was playing in the Super Bowl. Even when 'Basic Instinct' was a hit, I still felt like I was running with that ball toward the end zone. It took awhile for me to realize that I was already in the end zone with the ball down and the crowd screaming on its feet."
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"Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side."
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"I was born with God-given gifts of very talented musical ability and exceptoinal physical coordination. I always needed prodding to practice piano, violin, cornet or French horn. I had to be pulled away from any athletic participation. Now, at 63, I look back on my athletic feats - All-American, All-Pro Quaterback, College and Pro Football Hall of Fame - and I can honestly say I would trade these all if I had been smart enough to pursue my musical career. YOUNG PEOPLE - don't make the same mistake."
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"There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you could be out there all day, totally in the zone, and you don't even know where you are on the field, everything is just totally blocked out."
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"Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn't change. It really puts the real in football."
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"It was nothing personal: if it had been, I would have left him on so he could have suffered like everyone else."
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"Very few great goals actually go in."
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"My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else."
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