Inspirational Football Coach Quotes

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.

Lou Holtz

Sports, Football, Volleyball

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You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.

Paul Brown

Motivational, Sports, Football

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The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

Knute Rockne

Motivational, Teamwork, Play

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If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?

Vince Lombardi

Motivational, Soccer, Football

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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.

Tom Landry

Motivational, Teamwork, Winning

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Lou Holtz

Teamwork, Jobs, Nfl

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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Elbert Hubbard

Motivational, Positive, Leadership

Elbert Hubbard “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Complete 14 Volumes”, Library of Alexandria

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Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

Knute Rockne

Soccer, Sports, Football

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Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

Joe Paterno

Sports, Loyalty, Running

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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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One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

Knute Rockne

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

Herschel Walker

Motivational, Sports, Football

Herschel Walker (1989). “Herschel Walker's Basic Training”, Main Street Books

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Vince Lombardi

Teamwork, Football, Commitment

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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Seneca the Younger

Inspirational, Success, Tattoo

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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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Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

Vince Lombardi

Motivational, Dance, Sports

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

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If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

Ronnie Lott

Graduation, Sports, Football

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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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Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.

Duffy Daugherty

Sports, Football, Nfl Players

Quoted in L.A. Times, 5 Oct. 1963

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Attitude determines how well you do it.

Lou Holtz

Motivational Sports, Attitude, Exercise

Lou Holtz (2009). “Winning Every Day: The Game Plan for Success”, p.14, Harper Collins

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You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.

Dan Birdwell

Motivational, Soccer, Football

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You play to win the game.

Herman Edwards

Sports, Winning, Nfl Players

News conference, Hempstead, N.Y., 30 Oct. 2002.

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You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Lou Holtz

Motivational, Basketball, Football

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The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

Joe Paterno

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

Bear Bryant

Inspirational, Sports, Football

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