The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.
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Related They were not really big into football down there. Basketball was what they primarily played. BILL BUCHANAN I wasn't really interested in girls. Only football. I was just enjoying football all the time. T... PAUL POGBA I remember my dad, who coached football, would buy some of his players football shoes when they coul... CHASKE SPENCER The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really ea... ARSENE WENGER In football, every play, play after play, there's that physicality. Football players only play o... SIDNEY CROSBY I think at first it was not a perfect experience. There was zero student participation. He would pla... BETH PUCHTEL Airport is a strong, physical team. They have a lot of football players who play basketball, but the... CHRIS SCHULTZ I had great football players. To be quite truthful, my great football players, the ones who wanted t... JOE GIBBS I really enjoyed that. It had been so long. It was 27 years. There were some players from Leavenwort... CLINT JOHNSON I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fa... GAINES ADAMS There is now a lot of money in football and teams want to sign the best players. RAFAEL BENITEZ When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was ab... VICTOR CRUZ They were in a little shock. There really wasn't much said. Our football program is bigger than any ... CRAIG JOHNSTON It's easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they ... KHLOE KARDASHIAN They're on the right road, but there's a long way to go on concussions, not only in the NFL,... JOHN MADDEN It's an amazing squad they've got. Our guys really dug in, hung in there for a little bit and starte... FRANK YALLOP He wants to play football, period. Right now, the Cowboys drafted him, they have paid him money and ... MARVIN DEMOFF Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop o... ERIC CANTONA I played football for Leeds United under-18s, but at 17 my eyes started to go and I had to wear glas... GEOFFREY BOYCOTT When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role... ABBY WAMBACH German football is like English football. The Germans and the English do not play like a Brazilian s... FRANZ BECKENBAUER I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I... JASON KIDD It stems from the football field. Since we're in (the weight room) lifting for football, and even th... CHRIS TAYLOR In terms of the pricing of football tickets, there's no need - given the massive amount of money... GARY LINEKER The scary thing is that players have a one-upsmanship about money; they sign a contract and they lik... JOE GREENE We thank the NFL for giving us a home game in New York and raising all the money they did. But when ... DEUCE MCALLISTER We try to play football; don't forget it, right. My teams always in my career try to play footba... PEP GUARDIOLA For a variety of reasons we can speculate on, he didn't make it into the Hall of Fame. But unquestio... BILL MCKENNA I know the summer time is where they really try to weed those guys out. There are guys who really wa... VINCE CARTER A lot of people in football don't have much time for the press; they say they're amateurs. MALCOLM ALLISON I like a lot of sports. Especially football - it's my favourite sport. My uncle played football ... RAFAEL NADAL I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national televi... NOVAK DJOKOVIC As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot. When we were playing in th... BARRY SANDERS We used to play football on the levee, with no shirts on in the summer - August in New Orleans - and... AARON NEVILLE There were a lot of places, including Los Angeles, that didn't have major league baseball. There... FRANK DEFORD The first time I ever played 11-man football was when I came to college. It was the first I'd ever s... CHAD GREENWAY You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say Eng... JOSE MOURINHO I ran track for my school. I played football, but I didn't play for my high school; I played for... NATE ROBINSON I played college football in an era when 220 pounds was still big enough to play in the line. As an ... LARRY JACOBY They can do whatever they want to with it. It's their money. For these youngsters, it's no different... LEROY SHAFER I played team sport as a kid and loved it. I played basketball and football throughout high school i... TOM WATSON Really, I learned a long time ago that in the National Football League, paper doesn't mean anyth... MIKE MCCARTHY I went to Dartmouth College, graduated, and had the opportunity to play two professional sports - I ... BRIAN J. WHITE For several years, people weren't quite sure what fantasy football was. But the NFL did a survey two... GREG AMBROSIUS Football players are misunderstood. They aren't the dumb jocks people think they are. SIMONE ELKELES They don't make mistakes. They don't turn the football over. We turned the football over on the firs... MARK NARDONE Defensively, they really played a solid game all night, and I'm proud of them. I'm real impressed wi... BILLY SPARACIO It is what a lot of clubs want at the moment. We need to reduce football so that there is a better b... SEPP BLATTER If they want to play football, we can play football. SHAQUILLE O'NEAL At one stage, I didn't have any money, so I slept on the streets for a few nights. It wasn't... KERRY STOKES There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling... HUNTER S. THOMPSON If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds IRWIN SHAW Our tactics were successful. We played counter-attacking football. The Turkish crowd for their part ... ALEKSANDRS STARKOVS Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of... LAWRENCE TAYLOR The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play ... ART DONOVAN We could only justify it if we were guaranteed Champions League football for the next three seasons.... RUDI ASSAUER I learned to play football in the streets. Every day of school, everyone came and played football. T... SERGIO AGUERO I think that our offensive line has really started to gel, ... We have three new faces up there on t... BILL GRAY We played football tonight. We simplified things and talked about being football players and not spe... CHRIS HUTCHENS I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between wome... GABRIELLE UNION The surveys showed an interest in volley ball, football and a marching band. We didn't have dance te... JUNIOR WISE We played great character football in the second half. We had some kids, who are not starters (and) ... DOUG KAY After graduating early from high school, I carefully listened to the quarterback during my first pla... JAKE BYRNE I love playing football. So I go out to play football, and I don't really feel pressure. Of cour... MESUT OZIL I probably prefer Spanish football to the others. It's very technical, the way they play; they k... GARETH BALE I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year... MICHEL PATINI I'm sure there were concussions galore back when we played, but the doctors would just say, '... MARV LEVY FIFA has nothing to do with politics. Iran is a FIFA member, they have qualified for the World Cup a... EMMANUEL MARADAS There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season. DARIUS RUCKER I had never played organized football before in my life. I was tossing a football at George Lane Par... CHAD MOORE If women were meant to play football, God would have put their tits somewhere else. GORDON SINCLAIR Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It's the greatest strength I've had. I... BOBBY BOWDEN There are two types of football - there's physical football and football talent. XAVI You're a hero one day, you're a villain another day. They say that's football. When a ma... VINCENT TAN They were very collaborative. They are easy to work with and understand the value of entertainment. ... JOEL GALLEN I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment w... JAMES CAMERON I loved my basketball and played all the way up until I made the under 16s for the state WA side and... JAMIE KENNEDY When I came on the tour, I thought, 'Why don't they treat tennis players the same way they l... JOHN MCENROE I wasn't like other boys. At any rate, I wasn't like my three elder brothers: they excelled ... ANDREW O'HAGAN We just have to find it in ourselves to find our focus on the football field. The young players are ... JAMIE DELAUNOIS In New York now, they have Harvey Milk High School for gay students. They don't have much of a footb... BILL MAHER American sports are quite masculine. And football - although it's still played by men all over t... NOEL GALLAGHER I used to play football all the time. In the U.S., people don't play football, so I had to learn... BARKHAD ABDI We never saw this coming. They played emotional football and, for the most part, they really had mom... JOE PAOPAO Truckee, they just reload every year. With them, it's all about the system. The key with Truckee is ... ROB KITTRELL They're professional football players. They'll come in and play football. We expect their best shot.... ELLIS WYMS For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playi... SAM BRADFORD I thought maybe they might play at some place, but I never thought for the same coach never, ever... FELIX MANNELLA We've all played football all our lives. This isn't the time to get nervous. This is what you play f... JASON FERGUSON They were locked up downtown in a storage unit. All these years, the kids playing football here had ... DAN GOOCH They're blue collar like the city. Even if they are football players, they feel like blue collar to ... CHRIS FELDMAN You hear players in the past say that it's just a job for them, but for me, it is nothing like t... JAMIE VARDY Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there a... LIONEL MESSI I ain't got nothing to say. I just wanna play football. MARSHAWN LYNCH Money plays an important role in football, but it is not the dominating factor. When Chelsea play a ... ROMAN ABRAMOVICH I don't play video games. My husband does. He plays sometimes the football, and every once in a ... LAILA ALI In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But lo... DANNY MCBRIDE They were off their game a little and we were on our game, ... We just played some good football. BRAD KASSELL I didn't play organized football until I was in the seventh grade. Up until that point, I only p... PEYTON MANNING It was a lake, ... Instead of quicksand, it was quick mud. But the conditions were the same for both... ERIC KNIGHT
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you believe. DETROIT RED WINGS (NHL) ...and an edge that could cut a truth from a lie. MARK LAWRENCE, RED SISTER You see, the ultimate irony with Avatar is that, for all the time and money spent to make this movie... MR. PLINKETT (RED LETTER MEDIA) For all the time and money spent to make this movie 3D and the plot and characters were still stu... MR. PLINKETT (RED LETTER MEDIA) The more I see, the less I know, the more I'd like to let it go. THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS We all need to play in our part in this SABA BLOOD RED ROAD MOIRA YOUNG