American Football Quotes - Page 8

• The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Football, Inspirational Sports, Determination

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• You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.

  John Elway

  Focus, Attention, Pay

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• I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Sports, Football, Names

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• Discipline and diligence are up there on the list, but one of the most important qualities of many really successful people is humility. If you have a degree of humility about you, you have the ability to take advice, to be coachable, teachable. A humble person never stops learning.

  Todd Blackledge

  Success, Humility, Humble

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• My father was an all-American football player.

  Edwin Moses

  Football, Father, Player

  Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. July 1, 2002.

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• Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it.

  Amos Alonzo Stagg

  Success, Winning, Worthwhile

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• My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.

  Barry Sanders

  Heart, Games, Decision

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• We did it together. Not one individual carried this team.

  Troy Vincent

  Teamwork, Together, Individual

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• I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Football, Stupid, Nfl

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• It's very important that you focus on winning games and being consistent down the stretch. I think that's what we're focused on. All of the other stuff about who wins and who loses and how many wins do we need, if we're focusing on that, then that's not good.

  Mike Singletary

  Football, Winning, Thinking

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• Because too many times in life there's just one person that I met, just one thing that I heard, one movie that I saw, one song that was sung, that changed my life. So I'm always trying to stay awake to be in the moment, and capture the moments when they come, because they come and go all the time.

  Mike Singletary

  Song, Always Trying, Saws

  "San Francisco coach Mike Singletary gets serious after the pants saga" by Paolo Bandini, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2010.

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• I was a halfback on an American football team in Athens, Greece - the Kississia Colts - where I went to high school, and we took the Cup my senior year. The downside, and somewhat unfortunate piece of information I have to pass on, is there were only two teams in the league because of the limited amount of Americans.

  Greg Kinnear

  Senior, Football, Team

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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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• I walked around for a while angry, in a bad mood. ... 'Woe is me.' I've gotten over that. It doesn't do any good.

  Peyton Manning

  Football, Woe Is Me, Bad Mood

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• In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can't just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room.

  Junior Seau

  Football, Player, Order

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• We have our own reasons for what's motivating us right now.

  Troy Vincent

  Football, Reason, Right Now

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• In the late-'80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl was on TV, but it didn't really catch on. When I was a kid, though, I became a big Miami Dolphins fan. I don't really know why - I just liked the logo, I guess. I didn't really know what was going on.

  Kevin McKidd

  Football, Kids, Miami Dolphins

  "Today" Interview, www.today.com. Ocotber 1, 2007.

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• I'm an ardent American Football fan.

  Don King

  Football, Fans, Ardent

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• Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz.

  Thierry Henry

  Baseball, Football, Team

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• If you make a fist and hold it for two hours, you won't be able to pick up a glass because you'll be so weak. Let's stay loose. Let's have fun.

  Lou Holtz

  Football, Fun, Glasses

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• I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.

  Carlos Slim

  Baseball, Football, Rugby

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• Consistency is one of the hallmarks of my career. You knew what you were going to get out of E-Smith every game, every year, no matter if I was 22, 21 or 35 years old.

  Emmitt Smith

  Years, Games, Careers

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• We can't run. We can't pass. We can't stop the run. We can't stop the pass. We can't kick. Other than that, we're just not a very good football team right now.

  Bruce Coslet

  Soccer, Football, Running

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• You learn you can do your best even when its hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.

  Joe Namath

  Inspirational, Sports, Volleyball

  Joe Namath (1987). “Football for Young Players and Parents”, Fireside

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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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