Sports Football Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.

  Greg Norman

  Sports, Mother, Father

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

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• Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Success, Tattoo

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  Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

  Joe Paterno

  Sports, Loyalty, Running

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• The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

  Steve Young

  Motivational, Change, Sports

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• If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

  Bud Wilkinson

  Success, Teamwork, Sports

  Bud Wilkinson (1993). “Football: Winning Offense”, p.13, Sports Illustrated

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  What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

  Dean Smith

  Inspiring, Basketball, Sports

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• I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

  Gale Sayers

  Sports, Football, Determination

  Gale Sayers, Al Silverman (1972). “I Am Third”

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• I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.

  Roy Keane

  Soccer, Football, Children

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

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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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• 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, Football

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

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• Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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

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• I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Sports, Football, Thinking

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• Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.

  Vicente del Bosque

  Sports, Football, Winning

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• Of all sports, football seems to be the most sanctioned homosocial opportunity for straight men to be with each other, pat butts, struggle, strive, and take showers together. All that talk of tight ends and penetration. The reason there are face masks on those helmets is so that can't kiss each other.

  Kate Clinton

  Sports, Football, Struggle

  Kate Clinton (2012). “Don't Get Me Started”, p.60, Bywater Books

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• February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.

  Novak Djokovic

  Basketball, Sports, Football

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• I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.

  Cam Gigandet

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

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