Football Quotes - Page 2

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  For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.

  Emmitt Smith

  Inspirational, Sports, Dream

  "Rice, Smith lead star-studded Class of 2010" by Vinnie Iyer, www.sportingnews.com. August 06, 2010.

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• You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Basketball, Revenge

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  Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.112, McGraw Hill Professional

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• If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.

  Murray Warmath

  Team, College, Nfl

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• Here's a twenty, bury two.

  Bear Bryant

  College, Two, Twenties

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• I don't hire anybody not brighter than I am. If they're not brighter than I am, I don't need them.

  Bear Bryant

  College, Needs, Brighter

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• They whipped us like a tied up goat.

  Spike Dykes

  College, Goats, Tied Up

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• Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon.

  Spike Dykes

  College, Afternoon, Buzzards

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• Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.

  Darrell Royal

  College, Two, Balls

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• I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.

  Bob Devaney

  Winning, College, Games

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• The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.

  Knute Rockne

  Leadership, College, Dumb

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• No, but you can see it from here.

  Lou Holtz

  College, Football Coach, Texas Football

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• I was the originator of smack. Some guys rattle with smack; with other guys it rolls right off their shoulders like nothing.

  Deacon Jones

  Nfl, Guy, Shoulders

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• A good back makes his own holes. Anybody can run where the holes are.

  Joe Don Looney

  Running, Nfl, Holes

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• That field goal attempt was so far to the left it nearly decapitated Lyndon LaRouche.

  Dennis Miller

  Goal, Fields, Left

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• Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.

  Bill Shankly

  Anfield, Grass, Liverpool Fc

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• To put it in gentleman's terms if you've been out for a night and you're looking for a young lady and you pull one, some weeks they're good looking and some weeks they're not the best. Our performance today would have been not the best looking bird but at least we got her in the taxi. She may not have been the best looking lady we ended up taking home but it was still very pleasant and very nice, so thanks very much and let's have coffee.

  Ian Holloway

  Nice, Coffee, Home

  "Gordon Strachan V Ian Holloway: Sportsmail Picks Their Top 10 Funny Quotes Ahead of Middlesbrough's Showdown With Blackpool". www.dailymail.co.uk. December 08, 2009.

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• Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.

  Bill Shankly

  Simple, Games, People

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• There's some people on the pitch... they think it's all over... it is now!

  Kenneth Wolstenholme

  Thinking, People, Over It

  Television broadcast in final moments of World Cup soccer championship, 30 July 1966

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• Thats the beauty of sport. Sometimes you laugh, sometimes you cry

  Pep Guardiola

  Sports, Laughing, Sometimes

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• That was only a yard away from being an inch-perfect pass.

  Murdo MacLeod

  Perfect, Yards, Inches

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• Woodcock would have scored but his shot was too perfect.

  Ron Atkinson

  Perfect, Shots

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

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• If it stays as it is I can't see it altering.

  Graham Taylor

  Ifs, I Can

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• Beckenbauer has really gambled all his eggs.

  Ron Atkinson

  Eggs

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

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• What I said to them at half time would be unprintable on the radio.

  Gerry Francis

  Soccer, Would Be, Half Time

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