Pro Football Quotes - Page 3

• The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

  Charles Spurgeon

  Winning, Men, Gambling

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 67: Autobiography Vol. 2”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Football, Inspirational Sports, Determination

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• Pro football is a game; not a war. It's for win or lose, not life or death... but say that in the summer, for winter brings the playoffs, and a season is at stake.

  John Facenda

  Summer, Football, War

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• Unfortunately, there are no mulligans when it comes to pro football contracts.

  Jay Mohr

  Football, Mulligans, Contracts

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• At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.

  Vince Lombardi

  Football, Games, Nfl

  Vince Lombardi (2001). “What It Takes To Be Number #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.15, McGraw Hill Professional

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

  Frank Gifford

  Sports, Football, Nfl

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• Lombardi, a certain magic still lingers in the very name. It speaks of duels in the snow and November mud He remains for many the heart of pro football, pumping hard right now.

  Steve Sabol

  Football, Heart, Names

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

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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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• 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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• Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.

  Bob Lilly

  Football, Player, Years

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• No pro football player should die of heatstroke, any more than cholera, in this day and age if the most basic attention is paid and precautions are taken.

  Sally Jenkins

  Football, Taken, Player

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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

  Football, Cutting, Perspective

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

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• If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay, and everything pro football stands for. Your also cheating the Maker who gave you the talent.

  Vince Lombardi

  Sports, Football, Cheating

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, McGraw-Hill Education

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• Without a doubt in my mind, I should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. You look at my stats without my USFL stats, and I don't know how you can argue with that. Look at my combined yards. I'm not one to make excuses, so I'll play by their rules and not even count the USFL stats.

  Herschel Walker

  Football, Play, Mind

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• Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.

  Pete Rozelle

  Sports, Football, Successful

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• We will all be better citizens when voting records of our Congressmen are followed as carefully as scores of pro-football games.

  Louise Erickson

  Football, Government, Games

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• I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?

  Art Donovan

  Football, School, College

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• If you think I'm a loser, that I'm a bust, that's fine, but you don't know me. I don't have a problem with people thinking I was a bad football player. I wasn't a particularly good pro football player. But I was a great college player, and that's something.

  Ryan Leaf

  Football, Player, College

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• I've had a lot of clouds in my life since I got into pro football -- too many -- but now I feel like I can see really clearly for the first time. And I can see the Super Bowl from here.

  Ricky Williams

  Football, Clouds, Firsts

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• My father wanted me to play pro football, and he didn't like the fact that I'd left school. And he said, "It takes a man to play football. And any fool can go up on the stage and make an ass of himself.

  Bill Cosby

  Football, Father, School

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• Boxing was on the one hand barbaric, unconscionable, out of place in modern society. But then, so are war, racism, poverty, and pro football. Men died boxing, yet there was nobility in defending oneself.

  Ralph Wiley

  Football, War, Men

  Ralph Wiley (2000). “Serenity: A Boxing Memoir”, p.31, U of Nebraska Press

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• I was born with God-given gifts of very talented musical ability and exceptoinal physical coordination. I always needed prodding to practice piano, violin, cornet or French horn. I had to be pulled away from any athletic participation. Now, at 63, I look back on my athletic feats - All-American, All-Pro Quaterback, College and Pro Football Hall of Fame - and I can honestly say I would trade these all if I had been smart enough to pursue my musical career. YOUNG PEOPLE - don't make the same mistake.

  Otto Graham

  Football, Smart, Mistake

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• Polls are now even more meaningless than ever... there was the case of Ronnie O'Brien, the young footballer who incredibly found himself at Juventus, and even more incredibly found himself in the running to win an internet poll of the great club's greatest ever player. The curse ironically struck O'Brien a second time when he was at one point leading Time magazine's list of the Greatest People Of The 20th Century. The error in the polling was soon rectified and O'Brien, happily, is leading a highly successful career playing pro-football with FC Dallas in the American soccer league.

  Ian O'Doherty

  Soccer, Running, Football

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• When I was a kid, I'd watch pro football on TV and I'd see someone make a play and I'd say, 'I wish that could be me.' But then I'd have to wonder, 'Could I make that big play?'

  Terrell Owens

  Football, Kids, Play

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• I'm not pro-life, and I'm not pro-choice. I'm pro-football.

  Kinky Friedman

  Football, Choices, Pro Life

  "Live From..." with Kyra Phillips and Miles O'Brien, www.cnn.com. February 3, 2005.

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