2674 Football Quotes for You to Enjoy

People think that coaching is about winning football matches - which, of course, it is - but throughout my career it has also been about helping people become better, more able to deal with life and be more successful in their lives, on and off the football pitch. Graham Potter

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I needed to learn to be a coach initially. I think if I'd gone into professional football when I stopped playing when I was 30 years old I'd have failed because I'd have made too many mistakes because I had no real idea at that time. Graham Potter

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They're human beings before they're footballers and it's important to understand how can I help them. What do they need? How can they feel part of this? How can they feel they're improving in their career, because my job is to help them get better, play better football, earn a better contract, whatever it is. Graham Potter

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We try and play football in a positive way. Any team has to be defensively organised, but you have to look at the attributes of the players and play to their strengths. Graham Potter

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When it is 1-0 and you have been dominant and you have restricted the home team to pretty much nothing, if you do not score the second goal then that is football. Any action can happen in the game. Graham Potter

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Any coach in my era will reference or look at Guardiola's teams. If you look at the style of play, he has had a huge influence on football. And he has innovated it again. Graham Potter

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I got a job as a football development manager which meant I could coach the students and work with the sports sciences department, all the people in university sector. Graham Potter

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Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit. Graham Roberts

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I work hard. I work 80-90 hours a week in part-time football. Graham Roberts

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In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them. Graham Taylor

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I like to play football. I'm an aggressive player and also a leader. Granit Xhaka

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My dad played football, too, in the former Yugoslavia. Granit Xhaka

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I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success. Greg Akcelrod

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But my biggest passion is football. Greg Akcelrod

Passion Football Biggest

I grew up playing football since the day I could walk; some of my greatest memories of childhood are playing touch football in all kinds of weather with my best friends. That's a part of the American experience that no corporation can destroy. Greg Graffin

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I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment. Gregg Easterbrook

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In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics. H. G. Bissinger

There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits. H. G. Bissinger

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I actually like football a great deal. H. G. Bissinger

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Leaving a legacy beyond just playing football has become extremely important to me. Ha Ha Clinton-Dix

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