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“We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Football isn't who we are, it doesn't necessarily define us. It's part of our life and it always will be, but football won't define us. Excellence does.”

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Author:Eric Dickerson

“Top to bottom Michigan is about excellence, greatness. You have my pledge I will carry forward the excellence of Michigan football.”

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Author:Jim Harbaugh

“There is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in winning a game that by all odds one should lose...There has indeed been a surrender at Notre Dame, but it is a surrender to excellence on all fronts, and in this we hope to rise above ourselves with the help of God.”

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Author:Theodore Hesburgh

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

Author:Vince Lombardi

“winning is not everything it is the only thing”

Source: The Essential Vince Lombardi: Words & Wisdom to Motivate, Inspire, and Win