Great Football Quotes - Page 3

• The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
  People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
  Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  Vince Lombardi

  Teamwork, Football, Commitment

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• Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Simple

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• It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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

  Ronnie Lott

  Graduation, Sports, Football

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

  John Heisman

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Soccer, Football

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• We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

  Vince Lombardi

  Sarcastic, Sports, Football

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• The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.70, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When you win, nothing hurts.

  Joe Namath

  Softball, Sports, Baseball

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• Life is great, football is better.

  Steve Sabol

  Football, Life Is Great, Life Is

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• This may sound arrogant, but I believe that if we'd done teamship better, we'd still be there. Where we fell down was the inability to hold together. We should have learnt from the great football teams. The players may not like each other. They have egos, they have their own ambitions, they have different personalities, but they are still bloody good teams.

  Alastair Campbell

  Football, Team, Believe

  "NewsPeople Alastair Campbell on spin, Iraq and a recurring nightmare about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown". Interview with Simon Kelner, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2016.

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• Young guys should focus on maintaining their football position. Coaches always say the lowest guy wins. I'm a taller guy and a bigger guy, but because I'm always in a great football position is why I think I'm able to get away from guys still. It gives me a chance to recover.

  Brandon Spikes

  Football, Winning, Thinking

  Source: www.nfl.com

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• Maine Road was a great football stadium but as time moved on it stayed where it is.

  Kevin Keegan

  Football, Moved On, Maine

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• It's a group of guys that put their mind to going out and playing great football. Everybody that needed to step up, stepped up. Everybody that needed to make a play, made a play and that's what it's all about.

  Kurt Warner

  Football, Play, Guy

  "Cardinals stun Panthers to reach NFC title game" by Mike Cranston, www.foxnews.com. January 11, 2009.

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• When you have great players, playing great, well that's great football!

  John Madden

  Funny, Football, Player

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• Traditionally, Seattle has been a great sports town and great football town. What the Huskies have achieved over the years has been pretty amazing. That's how I got my first taste of football - when I went with my father to Husky Stadium.

  Paul Allen

  Sports, Football, Father

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• Life is great; football is better. Steve Sabol.

  Ed Sabol

  Football, Life Is Great, Life Is

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• Great football coaches have the vision to see, the faith to believe, the courage to do - and 25 great players.

  Marv Levy

  Football, Believe, Player

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• Greece won the 2004 European Championship with the oldest trick in the book: man-for-man marking. Why? Because nobody expected it - and by the time they knew what Otto Rehhagel's team were about, it was too late. Great football is like great comedy in that way. It is all in the timing.

  Martin Samuel

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.

  Ricky Williams

  Football, Player, Challenges

  "Williams' clear vision: An NFL comeback" by Scott Ostler, www.sfgate.com. March 1, 2007.

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• In order to create you have to believe in your ability to do so and that often means excluding whole chunks of normal life, and, of course, pumping yourself up as much as possible as a way of keeping on. Sort of cheering for yourself in the great football stadium of life."
  
  (Barnes & Noble Review, email dialogue with Cameron Martin, Feb. 09, 2009)

  T.C. Boyle

  Football, Cheer, Believe

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• A great football team is the right balance and the right mixture of players. Good leaders, good communicators and good technicians. You need people that are strategically astute. People need passion, desire and most importantly, a willingness to keep learning.

  Hope Powell

  Football, Team, Passion

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I am a great football player. I had my own club when I was 14 years old. Football is in my blood, and I have been a fan of Fulham for the last 30 years.

  Mohamed Al-Fayed

  Football, Player, Blood

  "Richard Quest interviewed the owner of Harrods department store and Egyptian business tycoon Mohammed al-Fayed on his life, his health and his work". Interview with Richard Quest, edition.cnn.com. July 12, 2004.

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• I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for.

  Paul Tagliabue

  Football, Team, Thinking

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