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If every university president said, 'The revenue producing sports: basketball, football - potentially revenue producing at most universities - maybe in a few cases women's basketball, if every one of them had a monitor that reported directly to the university president and no 'student-athlete' ever gets into this college or university who could not plausibly be admitted if we did not have a football or basketball team, end of problem. It won't happen because it's like unilaterally disarming. You know your opponent won't do it and then you'll get crushed in every game, but it's a simple thing.

If everyone's happy, then I'm the character where when I enter that means there's trouble. In a movie, when I enter, it's not a good thing. But I know where I'm at. But, you know, you don't have to call me by my character's name for months on end. Football taught me that, because you can go from being best friends to having to play that person on another team, you have to be able to turn that on and off. You need to find that middle ground.

If ever the Greeks needed a Trojan horse, it is now.

If football was a drug, I would have died from overdose.

If Glenn Hoddle had been any other nationality, he would have had 70 or 80 caps for England.

If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

If football wasn't a part of my life, there were three things that could have happened, and they were all bad. I would have likely been selling drugs, in jail or dead.

If God wanted football played in the spring, he would not have invented baseball.

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

If football had always been my main goal then I would have gone to some scholarship school; I could have gotten more exposure there.

If he'd been English or Swedish, he'd have walked the England job.

If he isn't named footballer of the year, football should be stopped and the men who picked any other player should be sent to Kremlin.  (on Tommy Smith)

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

If I believe that I became the best quarterback that I could possibly be, the best football player that I could possibly be... That's how I'm going to measure my career as a success or not.

If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.

If I am hated at Barcelona, it is their problem but not mine. Fear is not a word in my football dictionary.

If I can't get the captains to respond appropriately and show the leadership I expect, how is anyone else going to respond?

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.

If I ever get the chance to do a football movie, that would be a dream come true.

If I ever wear a Chelsea shirt, you have permission to kill me.

If I had to put a percentage on it - I'd say not likely.

If I have any talent, it's in the artistic end of football. The variation of movement of 11 players and the orchestration of that facet of football is beautiful to me.

If I had stayed with football in college, I probably would have been a first-round pick.

If I may make a football analogy, we're a team whether we're a football team or community or the United States of America. We are part of a team and I believe the people on that team have a right, but they also have the obligation if there is something that is not good or we don't agree on, to speak about it.

I find American football quite ridiculous generally. I don't understand it. It looks like a lot of guys dressed up as spacemen shouting at each other.

I find it terrible when talents are rejected based on computer stats. Based on the criteria at Ajax now I would have been rejected. When I was 15, I couldn't kick a ball 15 meters with my left and maybe 20 with my right. My qualities technique and vision, are not detectable by a computer.

I find it embarrassing when people compare me to Maradona. How can they? There is only one Maradona. People who say this just have no idea, they don't know what they are talking about. Diego was a complete one-off who will never have an equal on the football pitch. No-one, I repeat no-one, could have transformed teams like he did. Maradona was the world's greatest-ever player while I'm just an apprentice.

I find the growing intervention by the football authorities in strictly footballing matters a rather worrying trend.

If in the earlier part of the century, middle-class children suffered from overattentive mothers, from being "mother's only accomplishment," today's children may suffer from an underestimation of their needs. Our idea of what a child needs in each case reflects what parents need. The child's needs are thus a cultural football in an economic and marital game.

If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.

If it is the case that you need just a first 11 and three or four more players, then why did Christopher Columbus sail to India to discover America?

If it had gone in, it would have been a goal.

If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?

If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.

If I was still at Ipswich, I wouldn't be where I am today.

If I was switched from whatever I'm doing, and I was, for some reason, made the chief football writer in any newspaper, then I'd retire. I'd go back to being a barber.

If one day I go to a game and I don't feel I can win, maybe I don't go.

If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much.

If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.

If me and King Kong went into an alley, only one of us would come out. And it wouldn't be the monkey.

If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.

If I wasn't playing football, I'd be a juvenile probation officer.

If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.

If my mother hadn't thrown my football boots on the fire, I might have become as famous as Denis Compton.

If other people think I’m okay looking, that’s great, but I don’t see it myself. When I look in the mirror all I see is a bunch of fake teeth and football scars.

I found the support inside Old Trafford has been terrific and, if there was ever a show of support for the football club and team, it was in this game. Inside Old Trafford it was terrific, it really was.

I found that while life drags on when you're losing, it marches on when you're winning.

If people are standing up there saying, my football team just won with help from God, then obviously God just pissed over the other team.

If people feel 4-4-2 is the way forward in international football, they'll have to wait until I'm out of a job.

If someone gave the Russians a football, they'd win the Super Bowl in two years.