Abe Lemons Quotes, Football Quotes, Years Quotes

I'd rather be a football coach. That way you only lose eleven games a year.

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Without defeats, how do you really know who the hell you are? If you never had to stand up to something - to get up, to be knocked down, and to get up again - life can walk over you wearing football cleats. But each time you do get up, you're bigger, taller, finer, more beautiful, more kind, more understanding, more loving. Each time you get up, you're more inclusive. More people can stand under your umbrella.

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The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

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That's referee Mike Reed's 50th booking of the season, which works out at an average of six a game.

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One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk, all takes place within the half-time show at a Dallas Cowboys football game. No one has better summed up the American appetite for spectacle, the link between sports and politics, and the absolute madness of George W. Bush's Iraq War.

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Lampard, as usual, arrived in the nick of time, but it wasn't quite soon enough.

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I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.

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My dad means a lot to me. He's the one who put a football in my hands.

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There's no end to the stoppage of this drama

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The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.

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but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game

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Tugay is writhing around all over the place as if he were dead

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Cleland was the victim of his own downfall.

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Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

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At 15, 16, you think you're going to be captain of England. But I realised it wasn't going to happen for me on a windy November night in Darlington, coming to my peak at the age of 23 but still playing for Mansfield Town.

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If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.

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Football is Freedom, a whole universe.

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I have seen players sent off for far worse offences than that.

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Broadcasting is easy; you just talk until you think of something to say.

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I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.

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