Football Player Quotes - Page 2

• Winners never quit and quitters never win.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Positive, Moving On

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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. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, "Oh, well, there's another Saturday." The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.

  Knute Rockne

  Sports, Football, Business

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• Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.

  Bobby Charlton

  Soccer, Sports, Football

  1960 Quoted in Peter Ball and Phil Shaw The Book of Football Quotations (1989).

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  Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.112, McGraw Hill Professional

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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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• If you're mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It's about the same.

  Bob Golic

  Football, Kids, Play

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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 road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

  John Madden

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

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• Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

  Frank Gifford

  Sports, Football, Nfl

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• It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

  Joe Theismann

  Funny, Sports, Football

  "Conrad Smith sees USA challenge in all black and white: it's about the win" by Alexander Bisley, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2014.

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• Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.

  Ian Shoales

  Funny, Football, Player

  Ian Shoales (1985). “I gotta go: the commentary of Ian Shoales”, Perigee

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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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  If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.

  Bo Jackson

  Motivational, Soccer, Football

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

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• Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.

  Pele

  Motivational, Soccer, Sports

  "SI Flashback: Soccer's Greatest Genius". Sports Illustrated, June 01, 1999.

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• Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.

  Alan Shearer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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• When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team.

  George Raveling

  Basketball, Football, Running

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• I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field.

  Walter Payton

  Inspirational, Sports, Football

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• I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

  Gale Sayers

  Sports, Football, Determination

  Gale Sayers, Al Silverman (1972). “I Am Third”

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• This is a dirty business, that is why I go out and play with my heart. I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports. This is like a nine to five. No guaranteed contracts, and that is the worst thing about it.

  Terrell Owens

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.

  Lionel Messi

  Football, Team, Player

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• As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.

  Gareth Bale

  Football, Dream, Kids

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• You guys line up alphabetically by height.

  Bill Peterson

  Sports, Football, Guy

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• I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face.

  Woody Hayes

  Football, Player, Faces

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• I'm a selfish football player. Each time the ball is snapped, I tell myself that I want to make that tackle, make that big play.

  Jevon Kearse

  Football, Selfish, Player

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