Football Player Quotes

• Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Football, Player, Knows

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• It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

  Vince Lombardi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Vince Lombardi, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  Mike Ditka

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Well, I don't think I've necessarily ever been a passionate football player or a passionate person.

  Ricky Williams

  Football, Player, Thinking

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• I think the thing about that was I was always willing to work; I was not the fastest or biggest player but I was determined to be the best football player I could be on the football field and I think I was able to accomplish that through hard work.

  Jerry Rice

  Football, Hard Work, Thinking

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• I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

  Lou Holtz

  Sports, Football, Athlete

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• I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not.

  Ricky Williams

  Football, Player, College

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• I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much.

  Ricky Williams

  Football, Travel, Philosophy

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• If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.

  Ricky Williams

  Football, Player, Challenges

  "Williams' clear vision: An NFL comeback" by Scott Ostler, www.sfgate.com. March 1, 2007.

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• The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player.

  Ricky Williams

  Football, Player, Icons

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• At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, 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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• 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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• At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.

  George Plimpton

  Sports, Football, Winning

  George Plimpton (2016). “Paper Lion: Confessions of a last-string quarterback”, p.235, Random House

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• When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.

  Dick Butkus

  Sports, Football, Hurt

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• Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

  Don Shula

  Funny, Sports, Football

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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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• Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

  Jim Bouton

  Teamwork, Sports, Baseball

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• I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Football, Stupid, Nfl

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• I wouldn't be bothered if we lost every game, as long as we won the league.

  Mark Viduka

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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• I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.

  Terrell Owens

  Sports, Football, Player

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• If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

  Irwin Shaw

  Football, Gun, Player

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• When it comes to football, God is prejudiced - toward big, fast kids.

  Chuck Mills

  Football, Kids, Nfl

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• I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.

  David Beckham

  Funny, Soccer, Football

  "Together by Richard Sennett - review" by Nicholas Lezard, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2013.

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• I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, "Oh, well, there's another Saturday." The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.

  Knute Rockne

  Sports, Football, Business

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