Sports Football Quotes

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.

The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.

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

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

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

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

winning is not everything it is the only thing

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

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

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

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

The principle is competing against yourself.

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

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team.

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.

We can't run. We can't pass. We can't stop the run. We can't stop the pass. We can't kick. Other than that, we're just not a very good football team right now.

I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.

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

There are several differences between a football game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also, there are usually more casualties in a football game. The object of the game is to move a ball past the other team's goal line. This counts as six points. No points are given for lacerations, contusions, or abrasions, but then no points are deducted, either. Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.

Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.

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

Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

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

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

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

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.

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

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

To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Attitude determines how well you do it.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.