Best Football Quotes

• 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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  I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

  George Best

  Soccer, Sports, Football

  "Best: Decline of the golden boy". news.bbc.co.uk. June 14, 2005.

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• Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.

  Woody Hayes

  Football, Jail, Funny Sports

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• I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Football, Imperfection

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

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• Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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• Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.

  Chuck Noll

  Basketball, Funny Inspirational, Funny Motivational

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• Pressure is what you feel when you don't know what's going on.

  Chuck Noll

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Pressure

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• Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

  Joe Theismann

  Funny, Sports, Football

  "Conrad Smith sees USA challenge in all black and white: it's about the win" by Alexander Bisley, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2014.

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• Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

  Roger Staubach

  Motivational, Soccer, Confidence

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• If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Soccer, Football

  "'You play football with your head, and your legs are there to help you': Johan Cruyff in quotes", www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2016.

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

  Bear Bryant

  Softball, Sports, Football

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  Pressue is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.

  Peyton Manning

  Football, Hell, Feels

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• A tie is like kissing your sister.

  Duffy Daugherty

  Softball, Sports, Football

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

  Doug Plank

  Sports, Football, Player

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• A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

  Bill Shankly

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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

  Paul Brown

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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• A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

  Vince Lombardi

  Football, Motivational Sports, School

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

  John Heisman

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Motivational, Success, Football

  Lewis Grizzard (1990). “Gettin' it on: a down-home treasury”, BBS Publishing Corporation

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• Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

  Erma Bombeck

  Soccer, Sports, Football

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?”, p.151, Open Road Media

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