American Football Quotes - Page 5

• I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.

  Alex Karras

  Inspirational, Football, Teenager

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• We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it.

  John F. Kennedy

  Baseball, Football, Taken

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.30, Best Books on

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• Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.

  Lynn Swann

  Football, Running, Distance

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• Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Football, Player, Nfl

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  If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.

  Bo Jackson

  Motivational, Soccer, Football

  Bo Jackson, Dick Schaap (1990). “Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer”, Doubleday Books

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• Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.

  Junior Seau

  Leadership, Guy, Consistency

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• We play a sport. It's a game. At the end of the day, that's all it is, is a game. It doesn't make you any better or any worse than anybody else. So by winning a game, you're no better. By losing a game, you're no worse. I think by keeping that mentality, it really keeps things in perspective for me to treat everybody the same.

  Tim Tebow

  Sports, Winning, Thinking

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• At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.

  George Plimpton

  Sports, Football, Winning

  George Plimpton (2016). “Paper Lion: Confessions of a last-string quarterback”, p.235, Random House

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• Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.

  Bart Starr

  Football, Attitude, Unique

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• American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.

  David Mamet

  Soccer, Football, Moving

  "Ultimate fighting: the final frontier" by David Mamet, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2007.

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• If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?

  Joe Namath

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• The best part of it for me is the idea that this group of young men, who came together and believed in themselves, bought the team concept completely, took the names off the back of the jerseys, checked the egos at the door.

  Tom Coughlin

  Motivational, Football, Team

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• I never really lost a game in my career, sometimes I just ran out of time.

  Bobby Layne

  Motivational, Football, Games

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• I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

  Tim Tebow

  Motivation, Negativity, Stronger

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• We (San Francisco) have football weather during baseball season, and baseball weather during football season.

  Herb Caen

  Baseball, Football, Weather

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• After a loss like this we just have to go back and work harder. We got outplayed and that's all there is to it. You have to let it go, move on and just work harder.

  Peyton Manning

  Moving, Hard Work, Athlete

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• I feel like I'm the best, but you're not going to get me to say that.

  Jerry Rice

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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• You can motivate players better with kind words than you can with a whip.

  Bud Wilkinson

  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

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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

  Football, Play, Nfl

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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

  Football, Nfl, Guy

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• No, we believed in ourselves all year. That's the position you want to be in.

  Eli Manning

  Motivational, Football, Years

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• Every team is beatable, you never know. The right moment, the right time, every team is beatable.

  Tom Coughlin

  Motivational, Football, Team

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• That field goal attempt was so far to the left it nearly decapitated Lyndon LaRouche.

  Dennis Miller

  Football, Goal, Fields

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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

  Motivational, Football, Nfl

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• I'll tell you, there were only a few games in my career where I was totally oblivious to everything around me, where I was in the zone.

  Lawrence Taylor

  Motivational, Football, Games

  "Lawrence Taylor: Getting Blitzed". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. May 31, 2005.

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