American Football Quotes - Page 7

• Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become.

  Mary McGrory

  Soccer, Baseball, Football

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• What I meant by that is, any time you have adversity, now you've got a chance to see all of these guys play every game the rest of the way like it's a playoff game. What you want guys to do when there's adversity is to play harder and play better, and that's when you see what kind of guys you have in your locker room.

  Mike Shanahan

  Adversity, Games, Play

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• Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.

  Mike Ditka

  Inspirational, Sports, Accomplishment

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• For every pass I caught in a game, I caught a thousand in practice.

  Don Hutson

  Basketball, Practice, Games

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• There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass.

  Dan Marino

  Soccer, Nfl, Perfect

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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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• You guys line up alphabetically by height.

  Bill Peterson

  Sports, Football, Guy

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• Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.

  Doug Plank

  Sports, Football, Player

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• The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean.

  Erma Bombeck

  Football, Funny Inspirational, College

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• 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.

  Dan Devine

  Football, Pain, College

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

  Tom Landry

  Success, Sports, Football

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• When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time.

  Max McGee

  Sports, Football, Nfl

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• I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.

  Jack Tatum

  Motivational, Soccer, Football

  Jack Tatum, Bill Kushner (1980). “They Call Me Assassin”, Avon Books

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• You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.

  Dan Birdwell

  Motivational, Soccer, Football

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• The most prepared are the most dedicated.

  Raymond Berry

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• It's always something that's going to be a part of me. It's the reason why I work so hard each and every day. It's the reason I come to work dedicated to become the best that I can be. Nothing's going to come easy in life, and I've learned a lot of lessons, some the hard way, and I think just the things that I've been through have helped mold me into the person I am and what (is in) my future and that's continuing to do things the right way.

  Michael Vick

  Sports, Commitment, Thinking

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• Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident.

  Chuck Knox

  Sports, Believe, Commitment

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• Let's face it, you have to have a slightly recessive gene that has a little something to do with the brain to go out on the football field and beat your head against other human beings on a daily basis.

  Tim Green

  Football, Nfl, Brain

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• There are several differences between a football game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also, there are usually more casualties in a football game. The object of the game is to move a ball past the other team's goal line. This counts as six points. No points are given for lacerations, contusions, or abrasions, but then no points are deducted, either. Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Football, Team, Moving

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• Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time.

  Arnold J. Mandell

  Football, Islands, Games

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• Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that!

  Bill Parcells

  Motivational, Football, Nfl

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• There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you could be out there all day, totally in the zone, and you don't even know where you are on the field, everything is just totally blocked out.

  Lawrence Taylor

  Motivational, Moving On, Football

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

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• Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Football, War, Games

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• My teammates, they keep you focused.

  Torrey Smith

  Focus, Teammate, Focused

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• The absolute worst thing a receiver can do is worry about not catching the ball or about getting hit.

  Jerry Rice

  Worry, Focus, Balls

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