Football Game Quotes

• If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Sports, Football, Fighting

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• When I'm on television, I think that I appeal to the everyday guy, 'cause that's who I am. The guys who go to the football games on the weekends are my viewers, for sure.

  Bobby Flay

  Football, Weekend, Thinking

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• The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture, like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays - beyond their meaning - a factor in our economy.

  Bob Schieffer

  Christmas, Thanksgiving, Football

  "Schieffer: More Than Just a Game" by Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. February 3, 2014.

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• And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together.

  Joan Collins

  Football, Fashion, Games

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• The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.

  Bob Schieffer

  Football, Long Ago, Games

  "Schieffer: More Than Just a Game" by Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. February 7, 2010.

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• I watch HGTV like a maniac, and when it's bad, it's like some crazy college guy watching a football game.

  Melissa McCarthy

  Football, Crazy, College

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• And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.

  Don Shula

  Sports, Football, Games

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• You're never a loser until you quit trying.

  Mike Ditka

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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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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• You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

  Joe Paterno

  Sports, Football, Determination

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• In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Soccer, Football, Team

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1976). “Theorie des ensembles pratiques”, Verso Books

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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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• To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate.

  Vince Lombardi

  Football, Hate, Games

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• If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?

  Joe Namath

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• The principle is competing against yourself.

  Steve Young

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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• The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, Football, Games

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

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• The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

  Steve Young

  Motivational, Change, Sports

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• Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

  Dave Barry

  Football, Intelligent, Sharks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• Why couldn't you beat a richer club? I've never seen a bag of money score a goal.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Goal

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• How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Soccer, Sports

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• Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Simple

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• Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, Football, Simple

  "Steppe change: how Gareth Southgate became a management guru in Russia" by Stefan Stern, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2018.

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• This ain't a football game, we do this every day.

  Earl Weaver

  Football, Games

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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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