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

Twitter post from Aug 24, 2011

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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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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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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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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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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 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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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Seneca the Younger

Inspirational, Success, Tattoo

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

Vince Lombardi

Motivational, Soccer, Football

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A tie is like kissing your sister.

Duffy Daugherty

Softball, 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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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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When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team.

George Raveling

Basketball, Football, Running

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One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.

Knute Rockne

Motivational, Sports, Loss

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They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.

Lou Holtz

Sports, Brother, Kissing

"Girls' Basketball: Redondo Beats Mira Costa and I Think About Lou" by Anthony Stitt, latimesblogs.latimes.com. January 31, 2008.

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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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The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.

Darrell Royal

Motivational, Sports, Football

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

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Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.

Vince Lombardi

Teamwork, Business, Inspirational Football

Vince Lombardi, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.60, Thomas Nelson Inc

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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.

Tom Landry

Motivational, Teamwork, Winning

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Hell, no! A tie is like kissing your sister!

Bear Bryant

Softball, Sports, Football

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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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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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