Footballer Quotes - Page 5

• A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

  Bill Shankly

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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• You can't be everything to everybody, but you can be everything to somebody. Don't lose the ones you love trying to please the world

  Trent Shelton

  Love, Dope, Trying

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• Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

  James A. Baldwin

  Love, Life, Friendship

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• Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.

  Jim McMahon

  Motivational, Failure, Risk

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• Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential.

  Bud Wilkinson

  Happiness, Success, Sports

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• When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.

  Dick Butkus

  Sports, Football, Hurt

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• Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.

  Mike Singletary

  Inspirational, Sports, Football

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• The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

  O. J. Simpson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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

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• If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.

  Geoff Hickson

  Motivational, Struggle, Self Improvement

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• You're gonna have to go through hell, worse than any nightmare you've ever dreamed. But when it's over, I know you'll be the one standing. You know what you have to do. DO IT!

  Tony Burton

  Motivational, Sports, Dream

  "Rocky's Tony Burton Dead at 78: Sylvester Stallone Remembers His Onscreen Trainer With Sweet Instagram" by Bruna Nessif, www.eonline.com. February 26, 2016.

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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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• Young people need to be inspired, told they can achieve anything they set their minds to.

  Jim Stynes

  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

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• If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.

  Dick Vermeil

  Inspirational, Sports, Hurt

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• There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

  Johnny Unitas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Confidence

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• It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

  Vince Lombardi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Vince Lombardi, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Sports, Attitude

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• What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

  Ralph Marston

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Leadership, Confidence

  Vince Lombardi (1998). “Seeing the Win: Why I Believe Vision Coaching is Vital to Winning Business Teams in the 21st Century”

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• Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  President Robert Robbins' Installation Speech, president.arizona.edu. November 29, 2017.

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• I don't understand referees. It appears like some players can't even be touched, but in my case, everyone can hit me as hard as they can.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• I'm here today because God has brought me here. Jesus has brought me here...I'm with an amazing team. I believe He perfectly placed me in the right spot at the right time.

  Russell Wilson

  Jesus, Team, Believe

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• In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Soccer, Football, Team

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1976). “Theorie des ensembles pratiques”, Verso Books

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  In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.

  George Best

  Drinking, Alcohol, Minutes

  "Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations". Book by Ned Sherrin, 2008.

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• When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

  Eric Cantona

  Soccer, Sports, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you so choose, the challenges can make you stronger. If you so choose, the disappointments can make you more determined.

  Ralph Marston

  Disappointment, Challenges, Deep Thought

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