Football Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.

Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.

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.

The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

First become a winner in life. Then it's easier to become a winner on the field.

Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.

I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field.

The reason of football is not to be the best but to be the best team

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

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.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.

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.

In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

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.

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.

The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

The first ninety minutes of a football match are the most important.

I've never played for a draw in my life.

Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.

The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.

Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.

In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.

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.

Maybe a good rule in life is never become too important to do your own laundry.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

Don't cuss. Don't argue with the officials. And don't lose the game.

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.

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.

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.

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

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.

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

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.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

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.

Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.

Confidence is a very fragile thing.

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

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.

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.

We have no leadership. They rule by herd. Nobody is in charge. It reminds me of a bunch of cows.

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.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

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.

Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy.

Im looking forward to the World Cup because I believe Wayne Rooney could be one of the major finds in world football.

My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.

I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable.

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

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.

I never make predictions and I never will.

I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.

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.

It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.

It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.

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.

You guys line up alphabetically by height.

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.

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.

Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake.

Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

A tie is like kissing your sister.

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.

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.

If God had wanted us to play football in the sky, He'd have put grass up there.

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

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

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.

The real reason for coming to Montour is my love and respect for football.

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

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.

Apart from their goals, Norway haven't scored.

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

No one could have brought in more personnel than we have to build a football team.