American Football Quotes - Page 7

• There's always someone out there training for your spot. For my scholarship at the University of Florida, for my job with the Denver Broncos, for my position with the New York Jets. And that's the reason to get up earlier or stay up later.

  Tim Tebow

  Jobs, New York, Florida

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• Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become.

  Mary McGrory

  Soccer, Baseball, Football

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• You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

  Joe Paterno

  Sports, Confidence, Football

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• I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.

  Sting

  Football, Wrestling, Usa

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• Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Football, Smart, Stupid

  Quoted in Washington Post, 12 Nov. 1967

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• Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Success, Sports

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• There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.

  John Steinbeck

  Football, Two, People

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• Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Sports, Football, Agriculture

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.

  John Heisman

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

  George Santayana

  Football, Art, Kindness

  George Santayana (1968). “Santayana on America: Essays, Notes, and Letters on American Life, Literature, and Philosophy”

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• The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean.

  Erma Bombeck

  Football, Funny Inspirational, College

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• Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident.

  Chuck Knox

  Sports, Believe, Commitment

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• It's always something that's going to be a part of me. It's the reason why I work so hard each and every day. It's the reason I come to work dedicated to become the best that I can be. Nothing's going to come easy in life, and I've learned a lot of lessons, some the hard way, and I think just the things that I've been through have helped mold me into the person I am and what (is in) my future and that's continuing to do things the right way.

  Michael Vick

  Sports, Commitment, Thinking

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• Dreaming means 'rehearsing' what you see, playing it over and over in your mind until it becomes as real to you as your life right now.

  Emmitt Smith

  Dream, Real, Mean

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• There are two kinds of people in the world, Notre Dame lovers and Notre Dame haters. And, quite frankly, they're both a pain in the ass.

  Dan Devine

  Football, Pain, College

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• When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

  Tom Landry

  Success, Sports, Football

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• When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time.

  Max McGee

  Sports, Football, Nfl

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• The most prepared are the most dedicated.

  Raymond Berry

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.

  Jack Tatum

  Motivational, Soccer, Football

  Jack Tatum, Bill Kushner (1980). “They Call Me Assassin”, Avon Books

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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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• Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.

  Doug Plank

  Sports, Football, Player

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• Let's face it, you have to have a slightly recessive gene that has a little something to do with the brain to go out on the football field and beat your head against other human beings on a daily basis.

  Tim Green

  Football, Nfl, Brain

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• There are several differences between a football game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also, there are usually more casualties in a football game. The object of the game is to move a ball past the other team's goal line. This counts as six points. No points are given for lacerations, contusions, or abrasions, but then no points are deducted, either. Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Football, Team, Moving

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• You guys line up alphabetically by height.

  Bill Peterson

  Sports, Football, Guy

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• Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time.

  Arnold J. Mandell

  Football, Islands, Games

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