Football Quotes

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  Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.

  Bear Bryant

  Inspirational, Sports, Giving Up

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• Maybe I didn't go to the sexy football school, but I paved my way.

  Rahim Moore

  Sexy, School, Way

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• Always remember..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.

  Ralph Jordan

  Motivational Sports, College, Coaching

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• International football is the continuation of war by other means.

  George Orwell

  Soccer, War, Mean

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• If we played like that every week, we wouldn't be so inconsistent.

  Bryan Robson

  Soccer, Week, Inconsistent

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• A player who dives and wins a penalty in Portugal, or Spain or Italy is considered clever, experienced, cunning, someone who understands the game. In England a player who wins a penalty like that is a cheat.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Clever, Winning

  "'Why go for 5-0 when 2-0 will do?' says Jose". Interview with David Shonfield, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2006.

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• It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.

  Knute Rockne

  College, Nfl, Notre Dame

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• Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational Sports, Block, Games

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

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Soccer, Team, Opposites

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

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• The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.

  Sepp Herberger

  Soccer, Sports, Games

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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, Drinking

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

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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, Block

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

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• When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.

  Paul Brown

  Motivational, Sports, Running

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• I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Stupid, Nfl, Dumb

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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

  Motivational Sports, Inspiration, Play

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

  Peyton Manning

  Hell, Feels, Knows

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• Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

  Darrell Royal

  Leadership, Sports, Character

  "Ex-Texas coach Royal dies at age 88", www.sfgate.com. November 7, 2012.

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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, Country, Witty

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

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• 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, Men

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

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• Football is easy if you're crazy as hell.

  Bo Jackson

  Sports, Crazy, Hell

  Bo Jackson, Dick Schaap (1990). “Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer”, Doubleday Books

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• There are several differences between a footballl game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also there are more injuries at a football game.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Games

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• When you look at where team sports are going, the National Football League is turning into organized warfare.

  Oren Lyons

  Sports, Team, League

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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.

  Knute Rockne

  Sports, Mean, Games

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• But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.

  Brett Favre

  Sports, Knowing, Forever

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Ign Sports Interview, www.espn.com. 24 November 2004.

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• I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.

  Stephen Chow

  Dream, Children, Poor

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