Football Quotes - Page 5

• Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Truth, Lying, Honor

  1857-8 The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, ch.5.

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• From that moment the pendulum went into reverse

  Gerald Sinstadt

  Moments, Pendulums, That Moment

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• I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Sports, Names, Nfl

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• I really do love football.

  Ricky Williams

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• I spent four indifferent years at Goodison, but they were great years.

  Martin Hodge

  Years, Great Year, Four

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• There's one sure way to stop us from scoring ... give us the ball near the goal line.

  Matty Bell

  Giving, Goal, Balls

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• But I just want to be known for my football.

  Jamie Redknapp

  Want, Known

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• I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Soccer, Sports, Believe

  Theodore Roosevelt, Joseph Bishop (2010). “Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children”, p.63, Applewood Books

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  It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

  Bear Bryant

  Inspirational, Sports, Meaningful

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• Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

  Frank Gifford

  Sports, Nfl, Warfare

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• Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

  Don Shula

  Funny, Sports, Mean

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• The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.

  Darrell Royal

  Motivational, Sports, Heart

  Darrell Royal, Robert Heard (1976). “Dance with who Brung Us: Quips and Quotes from Darrell Royal”

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• There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true.

  Neymar

  Soccer, Dream, Pressure

  "Neymar scores twice to ease Brazil past Cameroon into final stages" by Stuart James, www.theguardian.com. Jun 23, 2014.

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

  Arsene Wenger

  Beautiful, Team, Forget

  2002 In The Times, 28 Dec.

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• Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

  Joe Theismann

  Funny, Sports, Business

  "Conrad Smith sees USA challenge in all black and white: it's about the win" by Alexander Bisley, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2014.

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• Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

  Knute Rockne

  Soccer, Sports, Games

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• Our very success, gained you will agree by skill, will draw more people than ever to see it. And that will benefit many more clubs than Rangers. Let the others come after us. We welcome the chase. It is healthy for us. We will never hide from it. Never fear, inevitably we shall have our years of failure, and when they arrive, we must reveal tolerance and sanity. No matter the days of anxiety that come our way, we shall emerge stronger because of the trials to be overcome. That has been the philosophy of the Rangers since the days of the gallant pioneers.

  Bill Struth

  Success, Being Strong, Philosophy

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• If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

  Eric Cantona

  Passion, Dying, Exclusion

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

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• Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Soccer, Sports

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• Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous.

  Chris Laidlaw

  Beer, Rugby, American Football

  Chris Laidlaw (1973). “Mud in Your Eye: A Worm's Eye View of the Changing World of Rugby”

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• Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  "Donald Trump’s Concession Speech" by Noam Bramson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 02, 2016.

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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

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• The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

  John Madden

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

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• A tie is like kissing your sister.

  Duffy Daugherty

  Softball, Sports, Gratitude

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• Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Player, Nfl, Important

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