Football Quotes - Page 13

• When you win, nothing hurts.

  Joe Namath

  Softball, Sports, Baseball

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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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• Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.

  Mike Singletary

  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

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• Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.

  John Heisman

  Soccer, Sports, Boys

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• Football doesn't build character, it reveals character.

  Marv Levy

  Sports, Encouragement, Character

  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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• Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.

  Merlin Olsen

  Simple, Self, Emotion

  "Who's Better, Who's Best in Football?: Setting the Record Straight on the Top 60 NFL Players of the Past 60 Years". Book by Steve Silverman, 2009.

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• The tactical difference between Association Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former the ball is the missile, in the latter men are the missiles.

  Ernest Crawley

  Men, Differences, Balls

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• For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all-yellow strip.

  John Motson

  Black And White, Yellow, Funny Sports

  Quoted in Motson's National Obsession (2004).

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• The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.

  Art Modell

  Team, Pride, Important

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• Music was important. Football was the easy part.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Music, Soccer, Important

  "ZZ top". Interview with Andrew Hussey, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2004.

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• Nine in the box... that's a football term.

  Ricky Williams

  Nine, Boxes, Term

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• Of course I didn't take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present. It was her birthday and would I have got married during the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves.

  Bill Shankly

  Wife, Married, Soccer Fans

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• Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Graduation, Sports

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.10, University of Georgia Press

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• A modern school where football is taught.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sports, School, College

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.10, University of Georgia Press

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• Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

  John F. Kennedy

  Motivational Sports, Political, Daylight

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• That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

  Bear Bryant

  Winning, Games, Nfl

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• They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces.

  Darrell Royal

  Real, Cutting, College

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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

  Hate, Games, Play

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• If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game.... In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested.

  Stanley Rous

  Soccer, Sports, Men

  1952 Quoted in Bryon ButlerTheOfficial History of the Football Association (1986).

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• Everyone in my high school was a bit nerdy. We didn't even have a football team.

  Norah Jones

  Team, School, Bits

  "Oprah Talks to Norah Jones". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. July, 2003.

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• You only stop learning when you quit.

  Ruud Gullit

  Inspirational, Motivational, Quitting

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• I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players.

  Phyllis Diller

  Stars, Team, Winning

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• Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, Life And Death, Important

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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, Simple, Games

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

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• Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

  John Steinbeck

  War, Team, Army

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.126, Penguin

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