American Football Quotes - Page 10

• 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

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• Im a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football - but tougher.

  Alexander Hanson

  Football, Unions, Fans

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• I play American football every Saturday, which I find calming.

  Chad Harbach

  Football, Play, Calming

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

  George Steinbrenner

  Football, Mean, Winning

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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

  Success, Football, Team

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• Winning is the science of being totally prepared

  George Allen

  Winning, Motivational Wrestling, Prepared

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• God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.

  Heywood Broun

  God, Football, Sides

  Heywood Broun (1921). “Seeing things at night”

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• Every time you lose you die a little bit. You die inside...a portion of you. Not all of your organs. Maybe just your liver.

  George Allen

  Motivational, Football, Nfl

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

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When you believe in yourself and the people you surround yourself with, you will win something really big someday.

  Dick Vermeil

  Success, Believe, Winning

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• I worked hard. I worked late. I went in early. I did everything I could to gain an advantage.

  Joe Theismann

  Effort, Gains, Advantage

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• In the NFL game today, there are a lot of better athletes than I am, and quarterbacks these days are faster than the quarterbacks have always been, they're running like crazy. But I kind of stick to my roots of the disciplined quarterback. You know, I'm doing the same routine every week, studying tapes and working hard, getting ready to play and making good decisions on Sundays.

  Peyton Manning

  Running, Crazy, Athlete

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• I was always told that I was too small, too skinny, too slow, not tough enough, and I never ever believed what people told me.

  Joe Theismann

  Nfl, People, Skinny

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

  Mercury Morris

  Running, Practice, Play

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