Marquise Goodwin Quotes

Having been a cheerleader, I know all too well what these girls give up to join forces and compete.

It's always worth it when you come out here and put on a uniform and step on that field. It's the best feeling you'll ever have.

Football is everything for me in my life.

I love making the big play. I love being out there with my teammates. I love the camaraderie. I can't say I always love practice. But it's a means to an end.

Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn't go to the prom and stuff like that. It was always basketball for me.

Football brings you lots of lovely things, but then you have to realise that it's actually a job.

I love the atmosphere football brings; I love being around my teammates; I love the struggle in football. I love the fact that it is a part of my life. I don't look at it as any more important or less important as any other part of my life.

I don't love football the way I once loved the game. I don't look at it as fun anymore, and it definitely used to be fun. A lot of the fun has been taken away from it, I guess, because you go through so much on the field and off the field.

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.

There's a great thing about amateur sport: it is purer. And the athletes are not open to so much pressure with amateur sport.

I play for the love of football, not for the money.

I gotta respect our sport, my division, and the guys that are fighting in it. That's what I gotta do.

I am jumping to put the Spurs shirt on, but I will have to prove to the coach that I deserve to play.

Whatever is going on off the pitch, players relish playing football.

Football is not about money but emotions.

You hate missing games. You hate leaving your teammates out there.

It's not ideal for me to miss any time. I love the game. I want to be out there. I can't stand sitting the back watching games. I want to be out there fighting with my team.

Football is everything, mind, heart, talent.

There's no crying in basketball!

Every coach wants to win, but it's not easy to do that.

As someone who loves being on the field with his teammates, it's hard to hear that you're not going to be the one playing.

I just want to play my game for my team. I don't care about anyone else.

Of course, not everyone's going to get on but when you crossed that white line it didn't matter. For those 90 minutes it didn't matter what else was going on, we'd do anything to win.

Football is about sacrifice, dedication, a lot of work, and friendship off the pitch.

I love everything about football. You can learn so much from it, from leadership qualities to discipline. This sport involves every kind of emotion.