Footballer Quotes - Page 5

• A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

  Bill Shankly

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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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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• Football is just a game. What matters is what you play for.

  Ernie Davis

  Sports, Football, What Matters

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• If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.

  Geoff Hickson

  Motivational, Struggle, Self Improvement

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• If a man….who’s playing in front of the public, is being well paid, and he doesn’t dedicate himself to the job, I’d be hard on him. If I could I would put him in jail, out of the road of society. Because he’s a menace

  Bill Shankly

  Funny, Sports, Football

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• You're gonna have to go through hell, worse than any nightmare you've ever dreamed. But when it's over, I know you'll be the one standing. You know what you have to do. DO IT!

  Tony Burton

  Motivational, Sports, Dream

  "Rocky's Tony Burton Dead at 78: Sylvester Stallone Remembers His Onscreen Trainer With Sweet Instagram" by Bruna Nessif, www.eonline.com. February 26, 2016.

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• Young people need to be inspired, told they can achieve anything they set their minds to.

  Jim Stynes

  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

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• Thank you to my family, my fans and fans of other teams for their support. The NFL is a fraternity of brothers and I am thankful for the tweets, phone calls and text messages from my fellow players. God Bless everyone and thank u so much.

  Adrian Peterson

  Thank You, Thankful, Appreciation

  FaceBook post by Adrian Peterson from Oct 11, 2013

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• A goal without a plan is a wish.

  Herman Edwards

  Goals Dreams, African American, Wish

  "Former NFL Coach Herm Edwards On Leadership, Legacy, And Living To Make A Difference". Interview with Andrew Moses, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2017.

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• You don't have to flaunt your success, but you don't have to apologize for it, either

  Gene Stallings

  Success, Apology, Apologizing

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• It's not what you achieve in life, but who you become as a person due to those achievements.

  Curtis Martin

  Life, Achievement, African American

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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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• I’ve always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can’t live for a second without hope.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Soccer, Hope, Water

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• I'm excited about the opportunity to get out there and show not only what I can do but, more importantly, what this team can do with me in there.

  Philip Rivers

  Sports, Team, Opportunity

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• I blew the lot on vodka and tonic, gambling and fags. Looking back, I think I overdid it on the tonic.

  Stan Bowles

  Football, Drinking, Thinking

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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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• With the game on the line. I want the ball in my hands.

  Eli Manning

  Sports, Hands, Games

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• But when I look back I can't call myself unlucky. My 23rd birthday was December 14. In these years I have had more than most people get in a lifetime.

  Ernie Davis

  Good Life, Happy Life, Years

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• I don't understand referees. It appears like some players can't even be touched, but in my case, everyone can hit me as hard as they can.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• I'm here today because God has brought me here. Jesus has brought me here...I'm with an amazing team. I believe He perfectly placed me in the right spot at the right time.

  Russell Wilson

  Jesus, Team, Believe

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• In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Soccer, Football, Team

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1976). “Theorie des ensembles pratiques”, Verso Books

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  In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.

  George Best

  Drinking, Alcohol, Minutes

  "Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations". Book by Ned Sherrin, 2008.

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• When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

  Eric Cantona

  Soccer, Sports, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you so choose, the challenges can make you stronger. If you so choose, the disappointments can make you more determined.

  Ralph Marston

  Disappointment, Challenges, Deep Thought

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