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

“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.”

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

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

“Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.”

“Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.”

“Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”

“We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.”

“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.”

“If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.”

“The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.”

“If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?”

“One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.”

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

“We play a sport. It's a game. At the end of the day, that's all it is, is a game. It doesn't make you any better or any worse than anybody else. So by winning a game, you're no better. By losing a game, you're no worse. I think by keeping that mentality, it really keeps things in perspective for me to treat everybody the same.”

“Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.”

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

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

“Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.”

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

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