Football Quotes

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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.

Joe Paterno

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

Vince Lombardi

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

Chuck Mills

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

John Madden

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

Lou Holtz

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

Lou Holtz

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

Doug Plank

A winner never whines.

Paul Brown

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

John Madden

I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important -like a league game or something.

Dick Butkus

The reason women don't play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

Phyllis Diller

Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self- determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers

Merlin Olsen

I feel close to the rebelliousness and vigour of the youth here. Perhaps time will separate us, but nobody can deny that here, behind the windows of Manchester, there is an insane love of football, of celebration and of music.

Eric Cantona