Football Quotes - Page 12

• The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.

  Vince Lombardi

  Time, Attitude, Games

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• You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life.

  Paul Dietzel

  Character, College, Two

  Twitter post from Sep 05, 2014

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  I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.

  Knute Rockne

  Prayer, Player, College

  "Text of Bush's Notre Dame speech". edition.cnn.com. May 20, 2001.

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• I never make predictions and I never will.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Funny Football, Predictions, Stupid Sports

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• It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The best thing I ever learned in life was that things have to be worked for. A lot of people seem to think there is some sort of magic in making a winning football team. There isn't, but there's plenty of work.

  Knute Rockne

  Team, Winning, Thinking

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• I also played two years of high school football but I wasn't very, how shall I say it, talented.

  Kyle Chandler

  School, Years, Two

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

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• The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Sports, Determination

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• Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Funny, Friendship, Real Friends

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1974). “Locked rooms and open doors”, Not Avail

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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

  Nfl, Brain, Littles

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• Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time.

  Arnold J. Mandell

  Islands, Games, Nfl

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• Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Morality, Obligation

  "Vidal Sassoon: this much I know". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. September 03, 2011.

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• If you never concede a goal, you're going to win more games than you lose.

  Bobby Moore

  Winning, Games, Goal

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• If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

  Ronnie Lott

  Graduation, Sports, Perseverance

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• One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

  Knute Rockne

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.

  Jose Mourinho

  Sports, Games, Feelings

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

  Vince Lombardi

  Sarcastic, Sports, Sarcasm

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• I play in a position that demands hard work and generosity and little glamour, but I like it.  It’s my job and I like it.  I would rather intercept and steal 10 balls than shoot.  That’s what I’m here for, to make everyone else’s jobs easier.

  Sergio Busquets

  Jobs, Hard Work, Player

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• If you can accept losing, you can't win.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Winning, Greatest Victory

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• In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.

  Eric Cantona

  Soccer, Cinema, Adversaries

  "The player". Interview with Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2003.

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• I'm not religious. In Spain all 22 players make the sign of the cross before they enter the pitch. If it works all matches must therefore end in a draw.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Religious, Player

  "Johan Cruyff and the End of an Era" by Prof. Cas Mudde, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2016.

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• When it's football season, I'm all football.

  Hayden Fry

  Nfl, Football Season, Seasons

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• I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.

  Hayden Fry

  Team, Marine, Men

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• It's weird... people say they're not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, People

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• If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Sports, College

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