American Football Quotes - Page 10

• Winning means everything...You show me a good loser and I'll show a loser.

  George Steinbrenner

  Football, Mean, Winning

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• I had all these desperate feelings. I kept thinking, How will I ever play football again if I can't even get out of this bed? I was an invalid. Football had given me everything: identity, money, confidence, friendships. I wondered what kind of man I would be without it.

  Keith Millard

  Football, Men, Thinking

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• We are all born naked into this world, but each of us is fully clothed in potential.

  Emmitt Smith

  Naked, World, Born

  Emmitt Smith (2011). “Game On: Find Your Purpose--Pursue Your Dream”, p.3, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Anybody who knows me knows I'm passionate about American football. I gave this game everything I had. In college, that's what I looked to do. Everything. Everything for so long, and all you hear growing up is that hard work pays off, hard work pays off, hard work pays off.

  La'el Collins

  Football, Growing Up, Hard Work

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Leaders aren't born they are made.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Discipline

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• People say I'll be drafted in the first round, maybe even higher.

  Craig Heyward

  Football, Nfl Players, People

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• Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous.

  Chris Laidlaw

  Football, Beer, Rugby

  Chris Laidlaw (1973). “Mud in Your Eye: A Worm's Eye View of the Changing World of Rugby”

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• All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

  Albert Camus

  Football, Morality, Obligation

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• I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

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• When you're on the road, you have to be louder and you have to communicate. That's really the bottom line.

  Vinny Testaverde

  Talking, Lines, Communicate

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• If the government is to try and ban private consumption of alcohol and tobacco, it must surely ban such activities as hang-gliding, skiing, rock-climbing and so on. Where should it stop? Rugby? American Football? Ice Hockey?
  Insofar as the government has information not generally available about the merits or demerits of the items we ingest or the activities we engage in, let it give us the information. But let it leave us free to choose what chances we want to take with our own lives.

  Milton Friedman

  Football, Hockey, Rocks

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• A modern school where football is taught.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sports, Football, School

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.10, University of Georgia Press

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• I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.

  Wally Schirra

  Soccer, Football, Equipment

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• The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Basketball, Teamwork

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

  Tom Landry

  Inspirational, Sports, Football

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• I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Beautiful, Baseball, Football

  The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• Anything I do, I always have a reason for.

  Johnny Unitas

  Reason

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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

  Funny, Friendship, Football

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1974). “Locked rooms and open doors”, Not Avail

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• I liked to play against all the teams in the National Football League or the American Football League, because they were always a challenge.

  Jim Otto

  Football, Team, Play

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• I'm a friend in the context that we helped fight a battle together for survival of the American Football League. But I don't consider myself close to Al in recent years. You just don't continually sue your business partners like he has.

  Lamar Hunt

  Football, Fighting, Years

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• If I can slow it down in my mind, things will be fine.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Motivational, Sports, Nfl

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• Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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• In practice, I run every play like I'm scoring a touchdown.

  Mercury Morris

  Running, Practice, Play

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• Most train to be part of the game. The greatest train to be the game: I am the game. Third-and-9, two-minutes left, that's what I train for. I train for moments everyone runs from. I run for them.

  Michael Irvin

  Running, Games, Two

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• Lifting weights is obviously important, because you want to be strong and fast and all of that, but it's not one of those things you gotta go and try to bench as much as you can every day. A bench press isn't going to help you throw a 15-yard out or a deep comeback. It's not about that. It's about training right

  Mark Sanchez

  Strong, Lifting Weights, Training

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