Footballer Quotes - Page 4

• The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.

  Sepp Herberger

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• There's no substitute for hard work and effort beyond the call of duty. That is what strengthens the soul and ennobles one's character.

  Walter Camp

  Work, Character, Effort

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• If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the beginning of the day.

  H. L. Hunt

  Funny, Soccer, Believe

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• Ageing footballers never lose their commitment; they just lose their pace

  Gary Lineker

  Commitment, Pace, Ageing

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• I'm convinced, that when you are a footballer you are a symbol. You have to be a superman in some ways, to send messages to people all the time, to the youth all the time.

  Emmanuel Petit

  People, Way, Messages

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

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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 put in the work, put in the time, put in the effort, you're going to reap the benefits.

  Richard Sherman

  Motivational, Success, Perseverance

  Twitter post from Jun 7, 2017

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• White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially and financially rewarded. When you learn to say and perhaps even believe the right things about race, doors are opened for you. When you say the wrong thing, those doors slam shut. Then, the gossips and church ladies will shame you publicly, demand that you be fired from your job, and use every avenue available to them to coerce a confession, a public apology and a staged conversion that contributes to their progressive narrative.

  Jack Donovan

  Jobs, Believe, Apology

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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, Football, Hurt

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• To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

  Tony Dorsett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Tony Dorsett, Harvey Frommer (1989). “Running tough: memoirs of a football maverick”, Doubleday Books

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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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• Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  President Robert Robbins' Installation Speech, president.arizona.edu. November 29, 2017.

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• Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Leadership, Confidence

  Vince Lombardi (1998). “Seeing the Win: Why I Believe Vision Coaching is Vital to Winning Business Teams in the 21st Century”

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• Never stop being YOU. I am out to be the best ME I can be. Do what you LOVE and you will be badass.

  Terry Crews

  Love, Being Yourself, Badass

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. August 28, 2012.

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• There are scientists who will tell you that spirit, because it can’t be measured, doesn’t exist. Bollocks. It does exist.

  Sam Allardyce

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Science

  "Sam Allardyce, the man: England's new boss from childhood to heart scare and being football's Mr Fix It" by Michael Gadd, www.mirror.co.uk. July 21, 2016.

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• What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

  Ralph Marston

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Sports, Attitude

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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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• If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.

  Dick Vermeil

  Inspirational, Sports, Hurt

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• Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.

  Jim McMahon

  Motivational, Failure, Risk

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• Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential.

  Bud Wilkinson

  Happiness, Success, Sports

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• Michigan State is always welcome at Ann Arbor. Your teams in all the various branches of athletics are more frequent visitors here than those of any other institution. This is as it should be, for not two universities are closer together in every way than Michigan State and Michigan.

  Fielding H. Yost

  Sports, Team, Two

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• Power isn’t just about going forward. It’s about not letting anything hold you back.

  Patrick Willis

  Moving Forward, Power, American Football

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• It doesn't matter what you all think, what you all say about me, because when I go home at night, the same people that I look in the face, my family that I love, that's all that really matters to me.

  Marshawn Lynch

  Love, Family, Home

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• You can't be everything to everybody, but you can be everything to somebody. Don't lose the ones you love trying to please the world

  Trent Shelton

  Love, Dope, Trying

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