Football Quotes - Page 8

• In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Life, Principles, Lines

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.44, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• What are you doing here? Tell me why you are here. If you are not here to win a national championship, you're in the wrong place. You boys are special. I don't want my players to be like other students. I want special people. You can learn a lot on the football field that isn't taught in the home, the church, or the classroom. There are going to be days when you think you've got no more to give and then you're going to give plenty more. You are going to have pride and class. You are going to be very special. You are going to win the national championship for Alabama.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Believe, Home

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• When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Baseball, Growing Up

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Football, wherein is nothing but beastly fury and extreme violence, whereoth proceedeth hurt, and consequently rancour and malice do remain with them that be wounded.

  Philip Stubbs

  Hurt, Violence, Beastly

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• I think the best place to work in football is England.

  Jose Mourinho

  Thinking, England, Best Place

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• I'm really normal. I play football, go to the beach, drive. We have dogs. I can imagine people calling me a character, but I'm Joe Straight.

  River Phoenix

  Dog, Beach, Character

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

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• When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.

  Dick Butkus

  Sports, Hurt, Nfl Games

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• Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.

  Joe Namath

  Sports, Team, Nfl Games

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• If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas.

  Ricky Williams

  New York, Moving, College

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  Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

  Knute Rockne

  Sports, Strong, Blocking And Tackling

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• The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.

  Sally Quinn

  Sports, Pain, Forget

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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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• The game is balanced in Arsenal's favour.

  John Motson

  Games, Favour, Balanced

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• I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.

  Eric Cantona

  Done, Excited, Needed

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• Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Player, Knows, Known

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• I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field.

  Brandi Chastain

  Soccer, Thinking, Community

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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, Dirty

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• I was disappointed to leave Spurs, but quite pleased that I did.

  Steve Perryman

  Spurs, Disappointed

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• I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career.

  Novak Djokovic

  Sports, Play, Careers

  "Novak & Ana". Interview with Emma John, Adrian Deevoy, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2008.

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• There are two things every man in America thinks he can do: work a grill and coach football.

  Greg Schiano

  College, Men, Thinking

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• What makes this game so delightful is that when both teams get the ball they are attacking their opponents goal.

  Jimmy Hill

  Team, Games, Goal

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• A professional football team warms up grimly and disparately, like an army on maneuvers: the ground troops here, the tanks there, the artillery and air force over there.

  Ted Solotaroff

  Team, Army, Air

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• We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches.

  Darrell Royal

  College, One Day, Scratches

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

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• Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.

  Burt Bacharach

  Hell, Playing Football

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• A lot of fans were drawn to me because they knew that whatever the score was, I was going to run as hard as I could on every play. You don't have that now, you have guys waiting for next week or even next year.

  Walter Payton

  Running, Next Week, Years

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