Football Quotes - Page 14

• Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

  Knute Rockne

  Soccer, Sports, Men

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• If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game.... In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested.

  Stanley Rous

  Soccer, Sports, Men

  1952 Quoted in Bryon ButlerTheOfficial History of the Football Association (1986).

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• They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces.

  Darrell Royal

  Real, Cutting, College

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• You only stop learning when you quit.

  Ruud Gullit

  Inspirational, Motivational, Quitting

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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

  Hate, Games, Play

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• I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players.

  Phyllis Diller

  Stars, Team, Winning

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• In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.

  Lionel Messi

  Motivational Sports, Mean, Inspirational Soccer

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• I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.

  Roy Keane

  Soccer, Children, Believe

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

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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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• Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

  Oscar Wilde

  Games, Gentleman, Barbarians

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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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• There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.

  Darius Rucker

  Years, Two, Waiting

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

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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

  Jail, Funny Sports, Way

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• In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball.

  Nelson Rodrigues

  Soccer, Balls, Blindness

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• If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Soccer, Gratitude

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• In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

  Bill Shankly

  Funny, Soccer, Sports

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• No talking. Talking doesn't play football, talking isn't going to make you practice harder or play harder.

  Ken Simonton

  Talking, Practice, Play

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• Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.

  Bill Shankly

  Inspirational, Motivational, Philosophical

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• Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Play, Special, Males

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from May 02, 2010

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  Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

  Thierry Henry

  Soccer, Sports, Goal

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

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• Arsenal are streets ahead of everyone in this league and Manchester United are up there with them.

  Craig Bellamy

  League, Manchester United, Streets

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• In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.

  Hayden Fry

  Sports, Games, Play

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• I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat.

  Ron Atkinson

  Funny, Basketball, Kids

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• I'd catch a punt naked, in the snow, in Buffalo, for a chance to play in the NFL.

  Steve Henderson

  Play, Nfl, Snow

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