Inspirational Football Quotes

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

  Joe Don Looney

  Football, Running, Nfl

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• Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to work hard, and that's it.

  Gale Sayers

  Football, Hard Work, Ability

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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

  Football, Talking, Practice

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• Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.

  Joe Namath

  Sports, Football, Team

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• Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Quoted in Esquire, Nov. 1962

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• Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do

  Pele

  Motivational, Success, Soccer

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• One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

  Knute Rockne

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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• The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

  Joe Paterno

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?

  Joe Namath

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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  The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.71, Thomas Nelson

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

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Soccer, Football

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  If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Basketball, Running

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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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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• You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.

  Dan Birdwell

  Motivational, Soccer, Football

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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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• People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Teamwork, Football

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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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• If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

  Ronnie Lott

  Graduation, Sports, Football

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  Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.

  Bear Bryant

  Inspirational, Sports, Football

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• The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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• winning is not everything it is the only thing

  Vince Lombardi

  Football, Winning, Nfl

  Vince Lombardi (2002). “The Essential Vince Lombardi: Words & Wisdom to Motivate, Inspire, and Win”, p.3, McGraw Hill Professional

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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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  My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

  Hank Aaron

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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