Nfl Quotes - Page 24

• You prepare. You study. You've got to be ready for anything.

  Philip Rivers

  Study, Ready

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• The culture precedes positive results. It doesn't get tacked on as an afterthought on your way to the victory stand. Champions behave like champions before they're champions: they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners.

  Bill Walsh

  Winning, Champion, Victory

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.48, Penguin

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• Concentrate on what will produce results rather than on the results, the process rather than the prize.

  Bill Walsh

  Process, Results, Produce

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.200, Penguin

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• If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn't doing a very good job.

  Bill Walsh

  Jobs, Hate, Player

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• Everybody's got an opinion. Leaders are paid to make a decision. The difference between offering an opinion and making a decision is the difference between working for the leader and being the leader.

  Bill Walsh

  Offering, Opinion Leaders, Differences

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.101, Penguin

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• You can achieve only that which you will do.

  George Halas

  Achieve

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• At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.

  Vince Lombardi

  Football, Games, Moments

  Vince Lombardi (2001). “What It Takes To Be Number #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.15, McGraw Hill Professional

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• I've been a Colt for almost all of my adult life, but I guess in life, and in sports, we all know nothing lasts forever. Times change, circumstances change, and that's the reality of playing in the NFL.

  Peyton Manning

  Sports, Reality, Forever

  Farewell Press Conference -- Indianapolis Colts, delivered 7 March 2012, Indianapolis, Indiana

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• I love the NFL. I don't have a team per se, but I'm into it.

  Noel Gallagher

  Team

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• I know I'm capable of greatness, and I'm expecting to reach that level.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Greatness, Levels, Expecting

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• I think if you're a good high school player that you have the ability to be a good college football player. If you're a good college football then you have the ability to be a great NFL player.

  Robert Griffin III

  Football, School, Player

  "Robert Griffin III Prepares For NFL Draft, Talks Peyton Manning From Super Bowl 2012" By Chris Greenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2012.

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• Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it.

  Luke Salisbury

  Funny, Football, Eye

  Luke Salisbury (1990). “The answer is baseball: a book of questions that illuminate the great game”, Vintage Books

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• If somebody mistreats you, treat’em good. That kills’em.

  Bobby Bowden

  Sports, Ems, Killing

  “Bobby Bowden: What I've Learned” by Call Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 30, 2009.

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• I give 'em the hip, then I take it away.

  Jim Thorpe

  Motivational, Athlete, Giving

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• You cannot lose games in the NFL, and still win

  Trent Dilfer

  Winning, Games, Stills

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• In the long run, the cream always rises and the crap always sinks.

  John Elway

  Running, Long, Cream

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• A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.

  Bobby Bowden

  Sports, Courses, Has Beens

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• I'll just say this. There was no way we were going to lose at home on this day in this in this city for all those people.

  Tom Coughlin

  Home, Cities, People

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• The big play comes with the pass.

  Sid Gillman

  Play, Bigs

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• He may not be in a class all by himself, but it don't take long to call the roll.

  Bum Phillips

  Class, Long, May

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• That's why you bring in a veteran player. You never know when a player goes down, a guy's got to step up and play.

  Mike Shanahan

  Player, Guy, Steps

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• Calculated risks are part of what you do, but the idea that something completely crazy will work just because it's completely crazy is completely crazy.

  Bill Walsh

  Crazy, Ideas, Risk

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.239, Penguin

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• One of the common traits of outstanding performers-coaches, athletes, managers, sales representatives, executives, and others who face a daily up/down, win/lose accounting system-is that a rejection, that is, defeat, is quickly forgotten, replaced eagerly by pursuit of a new order, client, or opponent.

  Bill Walsh

  Athlete, Winning, Order

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.256, Penguin

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• Failure is part of success, an integral part. Everybody gets knocked down. Knowing it will happen and what you must do when it does is the first step back.

  Bill Walsh

  Knowing, Doe, Firsts

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.31, Penguin

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• Afford each person the same respect, support, and fair treatment you would expect if your roles were reversed. Deal with people individually, not as objects who are part of a herd-that's the critical factor.

  Bill Walsh

  People, Support, Roles

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.229, Penguin

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