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足球
Football
For me, you've got to play football first. We're not trying to be accountants. The money takes care of itself. That's kind of how I think anyway.
对我来说,你必须先踢足球。我们不想做会计师。钱会自己来的。我就是这么想的。
All this cuddling and kissing on stage these days, well it's all right in football when someone scores a goal, but not when you're playing darts.
这些天在舞台上拥抱和亲吻,在足球比赛中有人进球是可以的,但在飞镖比赛中就不行了。
I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.
我不再踢足球了,因为我已经尽力了。我需要一些能像足球一样让我兴奋的东西。
Being a football manager is no fun at all. You have to put up with all the hassle. It is not surprising that so many turn grey or have heart attacks.
当足球经理一点也不好玩。你必须忍受所有的麻烦。如此多的人变白或心脏病发作并不令人惊讶。
Being a part of the National Football League for so long, I've come across so many trainers and equipment managers who've allowed me to be who I am today.
作为国家足球联盟的一员,我已经经历了这么长时间,我遇到了这么多的教练和设备经理,他们让我成为了今天的我。
To me, football is very personal. Even as a kid, I looked at football in dramaturgical terms. It wasn't the score that interested me, it was the struggle.
对我来说,足球是非常私人的。甚至当我还是个孩子的时候,我就用戏剧的术语来看待足球。我感兴趣的不是分数,而是奋斗。
I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys.
我一直都是这样的。我小时候是个假小子,所以我总是和男孩子们一起打棒球、篮球、足球等等。
When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys.
初中的时候,当所有的女生都化妆打扮好,开始喜欢上女生的东西时,我出去和男生们一起打垒球或踢触球。
I know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think that anything could touch me. I thought, I can beat anything.
我知道我在足球上很成功。我在广播事业上取得了成功。我不认为任何东西能碰我。我想,我能打败任何东西。
Here I was, this good guy that played football; I was gonna go play in college but I had a bad senior year. But I played guitar in assemblies whenever I could.
我在这里,这个踢足球的好人;我本打算在大学里去玩的,但我在大四那一年过得很糟糕。但只要有可能,我就会在集会上弹吉他。
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.
如果我能与国际足联和其他大陆机构携手在全球推广足球,那么我就能做得更多,把非洲足球推向新的高度。
Sophomore year, I got hit in the stomach playing football, and I was out of school for four months. I was in the hospital for two and then out of school for two.
大二时,我踢足球时肚子被撞了,我有四个月没上学。我在医院住了两个人,然后离开了学校。
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In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.
在足球中,你有一个对手;在电影中,对手就是你自己。
I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration.
我明白了足球有时是一种发泄方式。这是我释放愤怒和沮丧的一种方式。
As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.
随着足球越来越全球化,在你的球队中有一两个球员可能比以往任何时候都更重要,他们和铁杆球迷在同一条街道上长大,或者在同一所学校上学。
I think players tend to get anxious if they've not really done things properly - like eating, resting or training. If you're fully prepared you've got nothing to worry about - it's just a game of football.
我认为如果球员们没有真正把事情做好,比如吃饭、休息或训练,他们会感到焦虑。如果你做了充分的准备,你就没有什么好担心的——这只是一场足球比赛。
The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.
刚开始的几周,足球运动员看着你就像你在说一门外语。我的工作就是让他们相信我,相信这个体系。我要求他们以一种对他们毫无意义的方式跑步。
I was a quarterback in pee-wee football. I always wanted to be quarterback. They're the leaders, they make the calls. It didn't work out because I didn't have the arm. I also played wide receiver my senior year in high school.
我是皮威足球的四分卫。我一直想当四分卫。他们是领导者,他们做决定。但没有成功,因为我没有手臂。在高中的最后一年,我还打过广角。