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I always told my dad I'd play professional football. -- Anthony Doerr
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The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player. -- Tom Brady
It was a very exciting time for me to play professional football, finally. -- Jim Otto
The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries. -- Art Modell
Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star. -- Russell Wilson
Surely, sport is not fundamentally about the safety of athletes. If it were, we'd probably have to ban professional football, right after boxing. -- Alice Dreger
Only a handful of professional football athletes have had a signature shoe, unlike in basketball where there have been a number of guys. -- Keyshawn Johnson
I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran track at Syracuse. He played professional football for the Browns. -- Will McDonough
I used to tell the players that professional football is a part-time profession. I used to tell them it gets you ready for your life's work. -- Chuck Noll
As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place. -- Luis Figo
Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen. -- Leigh Steinberg
I don't think there's any question that the UFL or any other league that wants to challenge the NFL can have an impact. The demand for professional football is off the charts. -- Mark Cuban
Until the age of thirteen, I tortured the waiting worlds of book illustration and professional football by shilly-shallying over which of them was going to get the benefit of my inestimable talents. -- Glen Duncan
It is wonderful... Steve and Dan took professional football to a whole different level with the way they played the game. The fact that Steve is going in with Dan is very special. -- Frank Gifford
We spend our spare time taking care of little things. I can watch a little bit of college and professional football if I want to... Our favorite pastime is trying to take pictures of our hometowns from space. -- Kevin A. Ford
When I watch professional football, I love listening to John Madden because I know he knows what he's talking about. He's been both down in the trenches and in front of the bench as a coach. He knows the game. -- Robert Kiyosaki
I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today. -- Gerald R. Ford
I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor. -- Herschel Walker
Al Davis has been the biggest influence in my professional football life. I mean, he was a guy that gave me an opportunity, one, to get into professional football in 1967 as an assistant coach, and then at the age of 32, giving me the opportunity to be the head coach. -- John Madden
It's none of our business, the sexual preference of people. So, I hope if someone's thinking about it, that if they do come out as gay and are a professional football player, and it makes them happy, and it makes their life easier, then I think they should do it. -- Andrew Luck
The best thing I can say is professional football is a business. When they are recruiting football players, they are not recruiting model citizens. Everybody has to be aware of this. What's being selected for the NFL is the ability to play and perform on Sunday afternoons. Everything else is secondary. -- Jackson Katz
Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team. -- J. C. Watts
Any game is important to me. At Boston College, when I went out for the spring games, I wanted to win. Maybe it is more important than other preseason games. It's just that everyone is expecting a lot from me in my first week of professional football. I want to confirm my expectations. -- Doug Flutie
I've always believed since I was a kid that God was gonna allow me to play professional football, to use it as a platform to proclaim and live out the name of Jesus. And, you know, that's the most exciting part about my life because God has done things in me to change my character to benefit the kingdom. -- Reggie White
I'm not going out and hitting a 95-mph fastball where I can't see the stitches. I'm not on a professional football team looking to tackle a fullback who is built like solid wood. I'm a thinking person, and I've been blessed with the ability to see some things and talk about them in a way that registers in a humorous and funny way. -- Bill Cosby
Professional football is a job and it's in the entertainment business. -- John Riggins
Professional football is the most violent thing your eyes have ever seen. -- Michael Wilbon
I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment. -- Gregg Easterbrook
I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable. -- Branch Rickey
Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated. -- Robert M. Hutchins
More than any other major sport, professional or amateur, college football games are decided by the physical incompetence and downright chokery of their players. -- Stephen Rodrick
Professional football is no longer a game. It's a war. And it brings out the same primitive instincts that go back thousands of years. -- Malcolm Allison
Every professional golfer has a seperate coach for his drives, for approaches, for putting. In football we have one coach for 15 players. This is absurd. -- Johan Cruijff
Today, professional football is about profit and making money. But it's not about how much money you spend, it's about how wisely you spend it. -- John Riggins
If I could start my life all over again, I would be a professional football player, and you damn well better believe I would be a Pittsburgh Steeler. -- Jack Lambert
Ronaldo is a disgrace to the game. His petulance, temperament, throwing himself on the ground. It was a disgrace to professional football. This fella Ronaldo is a cod. -- Eamon Dunphy
A professional football team warms up grimly and disparately, like an army on maneuvers: the ground troops here, the tanks there, the artillery and air force over there. -- Ted Solotaroff
I have no interest in owning a football club; I don't play golf; I don't like horseracing and I'd rather become a professional bungee jumper than enter politics. -- Lloyd Dorfman
I take pride in the fact that people go home having felt that for 90 minutes today, life is beautiful - and that's it, basically. That's why professional football exists. -- Arsene Wenger
A football team is like a company. All of the people working in a company are not supposed to love each other, but they are supposed to be professional. -- Emmanuel Petit
I worked hard at becoming a professional football player, just like society says you should. It said you had to be fierce. I was fierce. Tough. I was tough. -- Dick Butkus
As a professional athlete, I believe that I need to explore my opportunities to the maximum, in order to excel and continue to play the best football I can. -- Hidetoshi Nakata
Bill Belichick is the best professional football coach I think ever lived. I'm upset that I played for a plethora of teams and never got an opportunity to play for Bill Belichick. -- Deion Sanders

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