Best Football Quotes - Page 2

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

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Soccer, Football

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• Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

  Vince Lombardi

  Sports, Respect, Football

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• Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Full Text of Governor Ikpeazu’s Inaugural Speech". dailypost.ng. May 30, 2015.

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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 difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.71, Thomas Nelson

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  The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

  Phyllis Diller

  Football, Motivational Sports, Inspiration

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• If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

  Erma Bombeck

  Soccer, Sports, Football

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?”, p.151, Open Road Media

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• Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

  George Halas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Football, Motivational Sports

  Vince Lombardi (2002). “The Essential Vince Lombardi: Words & Wisdom to Motivate, Inspire, and Win”, p.2, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

  Knute Rockne

  Inspirational, Football, Losing

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• There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.

  John Steinbeck

  Football, Two, People

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• Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.

  Johan Cruijff

  Football, Mistake, Winning

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• winning is not everything it is the only thing

  Vince Lombardi

  Football, Winning, Nfl

  Vince Lombardi (2002). “The Essential Vince Lombardi: Words & Wisdom to Motivate, Inspire, and Win”, p.3, McGraw Hill Professional

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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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• Every game I've ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me, and I laid it all on the line.

  Brett Favre

  Games, Nfl, Lines

  "Exclusive: Brett Favre 'On the Record'". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. July 17, 2008.

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• When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.

  Dick Butkus

  Sports, Football, Hurt

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• I always wanted everyone to like me. I wanted the city of Pittsburgh to be proud of me. But my first few seasons, I could to count the number of people on my bandwagon on one finger.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Football, Cities, Nfl

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• No one will ever win four [Super Bowls] in six years again. It won't happen. You can chisel that sucker in stone.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Football, Winning, Years

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• You can do more, you can always do more.

  Dan Marino

  Sports, Football, Nfl

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• My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance.

  Earl Campbell

  Football, Running, Nfl

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• I learned from different guys I played with, too. The key was probably three people: The good Lord, the offensive linemen I played with and great fullbacks that could block very well.

  Earl Campbell

  Football, Block, Nfl

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• When you play a team with as much attacking power as Barcelona and you restrict them to one shot on target in the second leg, you are doing something right. Have the best football team gone through? Yes. Have the best organised team gone through? No.

  Jamie Redknapp

  Football, Team, Play

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• I played football with my whole body - My hands, my head, my face. I did it all.

  Earl Campbell

  Football, Nfl, Hands

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• I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.

  Earl Campbell

  Football, Running, Nfl

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• I think I'm proudest of making my parents proud.

  Eric Dickerson

  Football, Thinking, Nfl

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