Football Team Quotes

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  The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

  Phil Jackson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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• The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
  People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
  Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  Vince Lombardi

  Teamwork, Football, Commitment

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• Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

  George Halas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  66 Copy quote

• A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful

  Arsene Wenger

  Beautiful, Football, Team

  2002 In The Times, 28 Dec.

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• It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Sports, Attitude

  61 Copy quote

• A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.

  Bill Shankly

  Funny, Teamwork, Football

  "How Benítez built Liverpool" by Kevin McCarra, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2006.

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• The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

  John Madden

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

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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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• 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

  34 Copy quote

• The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.

  Art Modell

  Football, Team, Pride

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• If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

  Herschel Walker

  Motivational, Sports, Football

  Herschel Walker (1989). “Herschel Walker's Basic Training”, Main Street Books

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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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  Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

  Knute Rockne

  Sports, Football, Strong

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• If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

  Bud Wilkinson

  Success, Teamwork, Sports

  Bud Wilkinson (1993). “Football: Winning Offense”, p.13, Sports Illustrated

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• I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

  Gale Sayers

  Sports, Football, Determination

  Gale Sayers, Al Silverman (1972). “I Am Third”

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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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• Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Full Text of Governor Ikpeazu’s Inaugural Speech". dailypost.ng. May 30, 2015.

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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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• You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Football, Country

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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  The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

  Phyllis Diller

  Football, Motivational Sports, Inspiration

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

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• At least 80 percent of the success of the football team is determined by the fight and spirit that they put into their play.

  George Halas

  Football, Team, Fighting

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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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• American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.

  Sue Lawley

  Football, Party, Nfl

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