Football Motivation Quotes

Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.

Bear Bryant

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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Attitude determines how well you do it.

Lou Holtz

Motivational Sports, Attitude, Exercise

Lou Holtz (2009). “Winning Every Day: The Game Plan for Success”, p.14, Harper Collins

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You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Lou Holtz

Motivational, Basketball, 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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We can't run. We can't pass. We can't stop the run. We can't stop the pass. We can't kick. Other than that, we're just not a very good football team right now.

Bruce Coslet

Soccer, Football, Running

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The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.

Darrell Royal

Motivational, Sports, Football

Darrell Royal, Robert Heard (1976). “Dance with who Brung Us: Quips and Quotes from Darrell Royal”

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Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.

Jerry Rice

Motivational, Success, Sports

"Getting Earnest With Movement". Noisey Interveiw, noisey.vice.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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It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

Vince Lombardi

Love, Inspirational, Life

Vince Lombardi, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

Vince Lombardi

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

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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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Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Tom Landry

Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

Bo Jackson

Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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

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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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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Vince Lombardi

Inspirational, Funny, Life

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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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Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.

Duffy Daugherty

Sports, Football, Nfl Players

Quoted in L.A. Times, 5 Oct. 1963

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I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.

Roy Keane

Soccer, Football, Children

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

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There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true.

Neymar

Soccer, Football, Dream

"Neymar scores twice to ease Brazil past Cameroon into final stages" by Stuart James, www.theguardian.com. Jun 23, 2014.

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You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.

Paul Brown

Motivational, Sports, Football

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Football doesn't build character, it reveals character.

Marv Levy

Sports, Football, Encouragement

Joeseph Valerio, Marv Levy (2014). “Second to None: The Relentless Drive and the Impossible Dream of the Super Bowl Bills”, p.15, Triumph Books

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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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There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

Johnny Unitas

Inspirational, Motivational, Confidence

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Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

Vince Lombardi

Motivational, Dance, Sports

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

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