Football Quotes: Inspiring Words from the Beautiful Game

"In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are"

"The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again"

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

"You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn't mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It's just like a football season. Everything's not going to go perfect"

Tony Dungy, Coach

"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jurist

"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer"

Frank Zappa, Musician

"Tiger is the greatest thing that's happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I've heard about him seems to be true"

Payne Stewart, Athlete

"It strikes me that these days, clubs don't even want players who can truly play any more; they just want athletes, quick guys who don't have a football brain, can just run and run; some of them, Jesus. I can never imagine acting like that"

Robbie Fowler, Athlete

"In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to"

Pat Summerall, Celebrity

"The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception"

Knute Rockne, Coach

"You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game"

Mark Russell, Writer

"We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supports Liverpool. He was Everton for a while because of his family - but it's all Liverpool now"

Linda McCartney, Photographer

"It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team"

Chuck Noll, Coach

"I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game"

Roy Clark, Entertainer

"Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper"

Bjork, Musician

"I attribute my entire football career, as far as getting me started, getting me interested, keeping me that way was my father. He went to every game even though he was crippled and wasn't real healthy"

Bob Lilly, Athlete

"I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success"

Greg Akcelrod, Athlete

"Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years"

Ronald Reagan, President

"It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

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

Vince Lombardi, Coach

"A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

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

George Will, Journalist

"I don't like to talk about individual performances. Football is a team game, and I think that's what makes it so special"

Cristiano Ronaldo, Athlete

"It's weird... people say they're not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?"

Mitch Hedberg, Comedian

"Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"Football is like life and I know life"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

"Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck"

Don Shula, Coach

"And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game"

Don Shula, Coach

"Because, they're only thinking about one team when that game's over. Before the game, they're talking about two football teams. When the game's over, there's only one winner"

Don Shula, Coach

"Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"Our goal was to win, to win a Super Bowl, but also to win in the right way, to be role models to our community, to represent Indianapolis, the state of Indiana and the National Football League"

Tony Dungy, Coach

"For some reason the football coach of a major college program is seen as one of the leaders of the campus. And some way we have to let our young people know that that leader can look like anyone"

Tony Dungy, Coach

"Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners"

John Steinbeck, Author

"I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football"

Victoria Beckham, Musician

"If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"In the German football team players from different clubs need to get on with each other both on and off the pitch. In the grand coalition Christian Democrats and Social Democrats sit in the same boat and need to pull in the same direction"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

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