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It’s no good having money in the bank and no good players out on the pitch.

Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

When you win, nothing hurts.

Despite his white boots, he has pace and aggression.

Carlton Palmer can trap the ball further than I can kick it.

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The one thing about being sick and being ill with a disease that could take your life is that you really learn not to be looking backwards. Just look forward.

Rust is an issue, but it’s not a red flag. Every team would hope for better, but factor that [year of development] into the equation.

Most football teams are temperamental. That’s 90% temper and 10% mental.

One accusation you can’t throw at me is that I’ve always done my best.

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

What will you do when you leave football, Jack – will you stay in football?

Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.

I don’t know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football.

Over the years, Dida has shown himself to be a very professional and sporting athlete, who even got back up after he was hit by a firework.

Football is the only game you come into with a semblance of intelligence and end up a babbling moron.

That Jim Brown. He says he isn’t Superman. What he really means is that Superman isn’t Jimmy Brown!

A winner never whines.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don’t like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.

Tell the Kraut to get his ass up front. We don’t pay a million for a guy to hang around in defence.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.

I’ve been big ever since I was little.

Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.

I want a life of good sport, good people and the competition that goes with it.

I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.

When you’re 4-0 up you should never lose 7-1.

I think this could be our best victory over Germany since the war.

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

I feel like I’m the best, but you’re not going to get me to say that.

I was in serious cabin-fever trouble being out of football.

The hardest guy ever to contain was Fran Tarkenton. He was like a rabbit.

Football isn’t a contact sport, it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport

I’d catch a punt naked, in the snow, in Buffalo, for a chance to play in the NFL.

American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.

There are no bungs in football, only presents.

There is only one word to describe football and that is ‘if only’.