Best Football Quotes - Page 5

• Going in is really more of an acknowledgment that kids in poverty, in their situations, can get out of it, and it doesn't always come from sports.

  Marshall Faulk

  Sports, Football, Kids

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• There's no fast track, no easy track, especially from where I came from. You try to take the most of it and learn from it and hope others learn from it. That's what it is about.

  Marshall Faulk

  Football, Nfl, Track

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• If you're going to start something-if it's worth starting-then it's worth finishing. That's what I live by.

  Marshall Faulk

  Football, Nfl, Finishing

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• I love doing what I do.

  Brett Favre

  Football, Nfl

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview with Suzy Kolber, www.espn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• All I asked was, where do I sign? Some of the other navy men said I was rooting for the war to last forever. (after Browns gave him a monthly stipend during the war)

  Otto Graham

  Football, War, Men

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• When Paul Brown talked contract, the championship game was part of it. We took the championship game for granted.

  Otto Graham

  Football, Games, Nfl

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• I could throw a pass to a spot as well as anyone who ever lived - But that's a God-given talent. I could never stand back and flick the ball 60 yards downfield with my wrists like Dan Marino does.

  Otto Graham

  Football, Nfl, Yards

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• Every football player knows when his time is up.

  Red Grange

  Football, Player, Nfl

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• I played football the only way I knew. If you have the football and 11 guys are after you - if you're smart - you'll run. It was no big deal.

  Red Grange

  Football, Running, Smart

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• I haven't seen a new football play since I was in high school. You have just so many holes in a line and you have eleven men playing, and there's only so many ways you can go through those holes, and those ways have been used for forty, fifty years.

  Red Grange

  Football, School, Men

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• The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.

  Red Grange

  Football, Player, Nfl

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• No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it.

  Red Grange

  Football, Nfl, Credit

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• They say that when you're the champs, everybody will try to beat you. Well, I'm glad we're champs, so bring'em on, bring'em all on. If we die, we ain't gonna die running. It's gonna be a fight.

  Joe Greene

  Football, Running, Fighting

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• For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities.

  Joe Greene

  Football, Pain, Team

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• I believe in being positive.

  Joe Greene

  Football, Believe, Nfl

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• Bottom line is, if you turn the ball over to a team that isn't as good, you then have brought them up to your level.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Team, Nfl, Balls

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• I guess Madden had seen everything with out group, and everybody else had seen everything. (After coming to practice field riding a horse and wearing a German WWI helmet painted silver and black)

  Ted Hendricks

  Football, Horse, Practice

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• If I could start my life all over again, I would be a professional football player, and you damn well better believe I would be a Pittsburgh Steeler.

  Jack Lambert

  Football, Believe, Player

  "Check Out the Pittsburgh Steelers Hall of Fame Tribute Video" by Bryan DeArdo, www.cbssports.com. August 05, 2016.

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• The problem a guy who lies all the time faces is he never can tell when anybody else is telling the truth.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Lying, Nfl

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• Give me a 6 pack, half-hour of rest and lets go play them again - We can beat them.

  Jack Lambert

  Letting Go, Football, Play

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• Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football.

  Jim Brown

  Football, Running, Player

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• I don't teach kids to be number 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be number 1; that's not it. You don't have to be number 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.

  Jim Brown

  Football, Kids, Organization

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• I had a choice to be lazy or lean - if I hadn't changed, thing probably would catch up with me.

  Jim Brown

  Football, Nfl, Choices

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• I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.

  Bob Lilly

  Football, Children, Dad

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• You can run on a football field but you can't hide out there.

  Sam Huff

  Football, Running, Nfl

  Sam Huff, Kristine Setting Clark (2011). “Controlled Violence: On the Field and in the Booth”, p.3, Triumph Books

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