Best Quotes About Football (Top 100)
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The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.
Lewis Grizzard
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There is an old saying about the strength of the wolf is the pack, and I think there is a lot of truth to that. On a football team, it’s not the strength of the individual players, but it is the strength of the unit and how they all function together.
Bill Belichick
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Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.
Bernard Law Montgomery
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Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Vince Lombardi
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The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence.
Tom Landry
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I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
Lou Holtz
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Erma Bombeck
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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
Federico Fellini
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Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
Knute Rockne
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When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
Tom Landry
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I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
George Best
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Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
Bjork
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
Lance Armstrong
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Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.
Dave Barry
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I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.
Alex Ferguson
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
Tom Landry
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It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.
Shirley Chisholm
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The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
Phyllis Diller
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Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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First become a winner in life. Then it's easier to become a winner on the field.
Tom Landry
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Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.
Bobby Charlton
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I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field.
Walter Payton
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The reason of football is not to be the best but to be the best team
Barry Sanders
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Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
Jim Bouton
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Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Joe Theismann
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If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.
Ronnie Lott
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Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.
Knute Rockne
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I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.
Brian Clough
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Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.
Bill Shankly
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I saw greatness in John and he lived up to it. I also saw a tremendous competitor who loved to win. John is a standard bearer, someone that players, coaches, fans and the Raider Nation can all look up to. One of his great virtues, the fire that burned brightest in him, was his love and passion for football, which was seldom ever equaled.
Al Davis
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In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.
Theodore Roosevelt
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I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
Gale Sayers
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Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.
Bob Lilly
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Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal - to move it along for the next generation.
Landon Donovan
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The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.
Darrell Royal
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You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.
Joe Paterno
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The first ninety minutes of a football match are the most important.
Bobby Robson
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Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.
Bill Shankly
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I've never played for a draw in my life.
Alex Ferguson
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The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.
Martina Navratilova
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Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.
Joe Namath
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Maybe a good rule in life is never become too important to do your own laundry.
Barry Sanders
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In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.
Bobby Charlton
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Haji Ali taught me the most important lesson I've ever learned in my life...We Americans think you have to accomplish everything quickly. We're the country of thirty-minute power lunches and two-minute football drills. Haji Ali taught me to share three cups of tea, to slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.
Greg Mortenson
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A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
Bill Shankly
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Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.
Knute Rockne
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Don't cuss. Don't argue with the officials. And don't lose the game.
John Heisman
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The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.
Bob Schieffer
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Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient.
Bo Jackson
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Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.
Mario Andretti
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If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.
Herschel Walker
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A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.
Lewis H. Lapham
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People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
Vince Lombardi
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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.
Darrell Royal
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It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice.
Natalie Goldberg
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Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.
John Heisman
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There are two kinds of people in the world, Notre Dame lovers and Notre Dame haters. And, quite frankly, they're both a pain in the ass.
Dan Devine
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I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.
Knute Rockne
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If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.
Irwin Shaw
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Confidence is a very fragile thing.
Joe Montana
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He can't kick with his left foot, he can't head a ball, he can't tackle and he doesn't score many goals. Apart from that he's all right.
George Best
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Football, in its purest form, remains a physical fight. As in any fight, if you don't want to fight, it's impossible to win.
Bud Wilkinson
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Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
John Leonard
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We have no leadership. They rule by herd. Nobody is in charge. It reminds me of a bunch of cows.
Bud Grant
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I think Jim Taylor was very underrated, never hear much about him. We played Green Bay every year in exhibition, and generally we played them every couple of years in regular season. And I always thought he was a fierce competitor.
Bob Lilly
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Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
Eugene McCarthy
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Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy.
Mike Ditka
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Im looking forward to the World Cup because I believe Wayne Rooney could be one of the major finds in world football.
Bobby Charlton
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First I went left, he did too. Then I went right, and he did too. Then I went left again, and he went to buy a hot dog.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable.
Branch Rickey
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Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
Vince Lombardi
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My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.
Herschel Walker
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I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.
Jack Youngblood
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I never make predictions and I never will.
Paul Gascoigne
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Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
Bill Shankly
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It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.
Red Smith
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The Frankfurt Galaxy( The NFL Europe team) always had tremendous success, at that time there were 2,000 American football clubs in Europe playing the game from juniors through to adults.
Bill Peterson
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You guys line up alphabetically by height.
Bill Peterson
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It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.
Chuck Noll
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Austin, Texas, and Columbus, Ohio, are the two toughest communities in which you have to put together a winning football team. They are both big metropolitan areas without professional football and major league baseball to sidetrack them.
Brent Musburger
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Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake.
Johan Cruijff
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Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.
Bart Starr
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Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me personally a particularly easy time, but that was OK, that was normal. Most people, it seemed to me, took their turn to be football. Most survived. Some didn't.
Dick Francis
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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
Bill Shankly
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The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.
Knute Rockne
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Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
Frank Gifford
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Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
Fran Lebowitz
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A tie is like kissing your sister.
Duffy Daugherty
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If me and King Kong went into an alley, only one of us would come out. And it wouldn't be the monkey.
Lyle Alzado
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If God had wanted us to play football in the sky, He'd have put grass up there.
Brian Clough
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If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
Fran Tarkenton
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Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
Archibald MacLeish
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A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
Vince Lombardi
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Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.
Roger Kahn
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The real reason for coming to Montour is my love and respect for football.
Dick Butkus
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If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.
Bill Shankly
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I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.
Duffy Daugherty
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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.
William Petersen
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No one could have brought in more personnel than we have to build a football team.
Al Davis
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Apart from their goals, Norway haven't scored.
Terry Venables
Even More Football Quotes
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In life as in football, fall forward when you fall.
Arthur Guiterman
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One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.
Alan Shearer
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If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.
Bart Starr
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Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.
Jack Kemp
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Joe Bob Briggs
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Something deep in my character allows me to take the hits and get on with trying to win.
Lionel Messi
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I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.
Alan Shearer
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When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.
Dick Butkus
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Being in politics is like coaching football. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important.
Eugene J. McCarthy
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Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.
Bill Veeck
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He dribbles a lot and the opposition don't like it - you can see it all over their faces
Ron Atkinson
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This ain't a football game, we do this every day.
Earl Weaver
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I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.
David Beckham
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Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
Don Shula
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I attribute my entire football career, as far as getting me started, getting me interested, keeping me that way was my father. He went to every game even though he was crippled and wasn't real healthy.
Bob Lilly
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All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.
Duffy Daugherty
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They whooped our tail last time we was here. So it's time for a little revenge, and show that Florida football is coming back.
Andre Caldwell
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If you can't stand the heat in the dressing-room, get out of the kitchen
Terry Venables
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What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
Bill Shankly
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Football is easy if you're crazy as hell.
Bo Jackson
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This is how we loosen up for the morning announcements. Whoever has the football when the bell rings loses.
Tom O'Connor
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Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
Duffy Daugherty
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I don't know any other way to lead but by example.
Don Shula
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I was the originator of smack. Some guys rattle with smack; with other guys it rolls right off their shoulders like nothing.
Deacon Jones
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If you never concede a goal, you're going to win more games than you lose.
Bobby Moore
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There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but youve got to work hard to do it.
Dean Cain
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I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.
Bob Lilly
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Let's win one for the Gipper.
Knute Rockne
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Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw.
Ron Atkinson
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Football players win football games.
Chuck Knox
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We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge, let's go after it.
Dick Butkus
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There are few secrets in football. So execute.
Hank Stram
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To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played the game.
Jerry Rice
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God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.
Heywood Broun
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If we're not on them, they go back to their old ways.
Dick Butkus
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I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will?
Johnny Unitas
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The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
Vince Lombardi
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In New York now, they have Harvey Milk High School for gay students. They don't have much of a football team, but the half-time show . . .
Bill Maher
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Three rules for coaching: 1.) Surround yourself with people who can't live without football. 2.) Recognize winners. They come in all forms. 3.) Have a plan for everything.
Bear Bryant
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Look, I understand that for a lot of people, the US is superior to their country of residence in myriad ways, but I'm Australian. We have it all: the weather, the beautiful cities, the brand of football that involves neither padding yourself up like Santa Claus nor standing in a line in front of goal and covering your testicles.
Max Barry
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You cannot win if you cannot run.
Hank Stram
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I felt like I played in a very rough football game with no hitting above the waist.
Alan Page
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I was in the game for the love of football - and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.
Bill Shankly
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In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.
Arnold H. Glasgow
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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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No star playing, just football.
Knute Rockne
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There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance — physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ''national pastime'' pedestal in less than fifteen years.
Hunter S. Thompson