Football Quotes

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  Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.

  Bear Bryant

  Inspirational, Sports, Giving Up

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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

  Motivational Sports, Inspiration, Play

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  For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.

  Emmitt Smith

  Inspirational, Sports, Dream

  "Rice, Smith lead star-studded Class of 2010" by Vinnie Iyer, www.sportingnews.com. August 06, 2010.

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• The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Motivational, Success, Block

  Lewis Grizzard (1990). “Gettin' it on: a down-home treasury”, BBS Publishing Corporation

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• Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

  Roy Keane

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

  Roy Keane, Eamon Dunphy (2002). “Keane: The Autobiography”

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  Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.

  Arsene Wenger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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• Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Smart, Stupid, Thinking

  Quoted in Washington Post, 12 Nov. 1967

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• I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

  Duffy Daugherty

  Motivational Sports, College, Coaching

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• Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do

  Pele

  Motivational, Success, Soccer

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• It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

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

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• I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd

  Johnny Giles

  Funny, Soccer, Play

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  Your love makes me strong, Your hate makes me unstoppable".

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Soccer, Strong, Hate

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• It's better to have ten disorganized players than ten organized runners.

  Roberto Baggio

  Soccer, Sports, Player

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• I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones.

  Bill Parcells

  Soccer, Sports, Nfl

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• I have seen women walk right past a TV set with a football game on and - this always amazes me - not stop to watch, even if the TV is showing replays of what we call a "good hit," which is a tackle that causes at least one major internal organ to actually fly out of a player's body.

  Dave Barry

  Past, Player, Games

  Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.33, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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

  Ian Shoales

  Funny, Player, Nfl

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

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• It's a better view if you're standing up than if you're laying down.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Views

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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 supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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• Hey, we're like soldiers. Would you go to the Roman army and ask them if they thought they were going to win the battle? If I didn't think we could win, I wouldn't be here. I'd stay home and get fat.

  Ken Simonton

  Home, Army, Winning

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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

  Kids, Play, Nfl

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• Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

  George Will

  Inspiration, Nfl, Two

  International Herald Tribune, May 07, 1990.

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• Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Funny, Soccer

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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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