Football Game Quotes

• If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Sports, Football, Fighting

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• The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture, like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays - beyond their meaning - a factor in our economy.

  Bob Schieffer

  Christmas, Thanksgiving, Football

  "Schieffer: More Than Just a Game" by Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. February 3, 2014.

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• When I'm on television, I think that I appeal to the everyday guy, 'cause that's who I am. The guys who go to the football games on the weekends are my viewers, for sure.

  Bobby Flay

  Football, Weekend, Thinking

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• And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together.

  Joan Collins

  Football, Fashion, Games

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• I watch HGTV like a maniac, and when it's bad, it's like some crazy college guy watching a football game.

  Melissa McCarthy

  Football, Crazy, College

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• The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.

  Bob Schieffer

  Football, Long Ago, Games

  "Schieffer: More Than Just a Game" by Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. February 7, 2010.

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• And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.

  Don Shula

  Sports, Football, Games

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• You're never a loser until you quit trying.

  Mike Ditka

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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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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• Why couldn't you beat a richer club? I've never seen a bag of money score a goal.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Goal

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• Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, Football, Simple

  "Steppe change: how Gareth Southgate became a management guru in Russia" by Stefan Stern, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2018.

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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 will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

  Joe Paterno

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

  Joe Paterno

  Sports, Football, Determination

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• To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate.

  Vince Lombardi

  Football, Hate, Games

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• The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

  Steve Young

  Motivational, Change, Sports

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• If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Soccer, Football

  "'You play football with your head, and your legs are there to help you': Johan Cruyff in quotes", www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2016.

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• The principle is competing against yourself.

  Steve Young

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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• In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Soccer, Football, Team

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1976). “Theorie des ensembles pratiques”, Verso Books

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• The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, Football, Games

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Soccer, Sports

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• You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

  Joe Paterno

  Sports, Confidence, Football

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• Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

  Dave Barry

  Football, Intelligent, Sharks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This ain't a football game, we do this every day.

  Earl Weaver

  Football, Games

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• I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective.

  Knute Rockne

  Sports, Football, Mean

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