Football Quotes - Page 7

• Football is a team game. So is life.

  Joe Namath

  Life, Team, Games

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• I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football.

  Les Ferdinand

  Funny, Soccer, Surprise

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• Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

  Vince Lombardi

  Sports, Respect, Perseverance

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• To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

  Tony Dorsett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Tony Dorsett, Harvey Frommer (1989). “Running tough: memoirs of a football maverick”, Doubleday Books

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• The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.

  Jose Mourinho

  People, Negative, Our Society

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• Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.

  Ron Jaworski

  Motivational, Positive, Success

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• Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

  Jack Kemp

  Cutting, Perspective, Hung

  "Jack F. Kemp", www.nytimes.com.

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• When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Baseball, Growing Up

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Sports, Fighting, Men

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• I think the best place to work in football is England.

  Jose Mourinho

  Thinking, England, Best Place

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• I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Pain, Player

  Interview with Tracy Stevens, www.ign.com. March 25, 2005.

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• God blessed me to play football.

  Terrell Owens

  Blessed, Play

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• I'm really normal. I play football, go to the beach, drive. We have dogs. I can imagine people calling me a character, but I'm Joe Straight.

  River Phoenix

  Dog, Beach, Character

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

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• I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.

  Rod Stewart

  Soccer, Stars, Rocks

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• There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Mother, Gambling, Why Not

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• Good luck is a residue of preparation.

  Jack Youngblood

  Inspirational, Motivational, Good Luck

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• And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Soccer, Kissing, Men

  Eduardo Galeano (2013). “Soccer in Sun and Shadow”, p.5, Nation Books

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• What are you doing here? Tell me why you are here. If you are not here to win a national championship, you're in the wrong place. You boys are special. I don't want my players to be like other students. I want special people. You can learn a lot on the football field that isn't taught in the home, the church, or the classroom. There are going to be days when you think you've got no more to give and then you're going to give plenty more. You are going to have pride and class. You are going to be very special. You are going to win the national championship for Alabama.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Believe, Home

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• Football, wherein is nothing but beastly fury and extreme violence, whereoth proceedeth hurt, and consequently rancour and malice do remain with them that be wounded.

  Philip Stubbs

  Hurt, Violence, Beastly

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• All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once.

  Raul Lopez

  Motivational, Soccer, Mistake

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• Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.

  Ondino Viera

  Soccer, Country, Other Countries

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• I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games.

  Bo Jackson

  Soccer, Sports, Baseball

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• Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.

  Bo Jackson

  Soccer, Sports, Baseball

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• Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Soccer, Games, Wonderful

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• We can't run. We can't pass. We can't stop the run. We can't stop the pass. We can't kick. Other than that, we're just not a very good football team right now.

  Bruce Coslet

  Soccer, Running, Team

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