Football Quotes

In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.
Ronnie Lott

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

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

When it comes to football, God is prejudiced - toward big, fast kids.
Chuck Mills

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.
John Madden

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.
John Madden

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

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

Most football teams are temperamental. That's 90% temper and 10% mental.
Doug Plank

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

I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd.
Johnny Giles

Maybe a good rule in life is never become too important to do your own laundry.
Barry Sanders

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
Archie Griffen

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Joe Theismann

Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.
Heywood Hale Broun

College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Speed is not your fastest, but your slowest man. No back can run faster than his interference.
Jock Sutherland

Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.
Merle Kessler

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.
Jimmy Breslin

Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.







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