Best football & firsts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If you're honest with yourself, that's the first step in maturing and becoming a better person. If you suppress your shortcomings and fears, they will follow you until the day you die. It was difficult, but I finally admitted to myself that I made mistakes.”

“I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.”

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Author:Ato Boldon

“I have cried twice in my life watching a football player; the first one was Maradona and the second was Ryan Giggs.”

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Author:Alessandro Del Piero

“I've had a lot of clouds in my life since I got into pro football -- too many -- but now I feel like I can see really clearly for the first time. And I can see the Super Bowl from here.”

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Author:Ricky Williams

“I grew up watching my Dad, Uncles Ciaran Murray and Brendan Murray, and cousin, Aedin Murray, who were all national caliber Gaelic football players in Ireland. I try to watch as much Gaelic football as I can, it is my first love. I bleed Green, White, and Orange. Gaelic football players don’t get paid to play, you play to represent your county that is more important than earning money.”

“First of all, I wish everyone who loved football could stand in the quarterback's shoes just for a play, because I think it would be tremendously humbling to anyone who loved the game to say, "I didn't -- I had no idea." You can think about what it would be like, and the cameras are getting better at giving that perspective, that one that the skycam comes down and you get a sense of it, but you just -- you don't know.”

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Author:Steve Young

“Football was just the playing I enjoyed at first, but the longer you're playing the more it becomes a social event. You meet new people and make new friends. I still know some of the people I played with when I was 11-years-old, which is nice.”

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Author:Hope Powell

“The score is high and very brutal but does not reflect what we saw on the pitch. The first shot on goal was a goal. The second was an own goal. The third was straight after half-time. They defend like mad and they catch us on the break.”

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Author:Arsene Wenger

“He lived in a fantasy world. There was not a day when he didn't add some Mickey Mouse story about a club that wanted him. First of all, he came in and told me that Arsenal wanted to buy him, then the next week it was Manchester Utd, then the next week it was Real Madrid. He made it clear that he did not want to be at the club so, in the end, there was only one thing I could do - send him to Wigan.”

“One of the reserves came up to me and said 'I'm finding it a bit hard, it's the first time I've ever been dropped'. So I told him to do what Nick Faldo does and work at his game. Next thing I know he's doing exactly what Faldo does, he's taken up golf.”

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Author:Ron Atkinson

“At the highest level the first two yards are in your head.”

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Author:Bob Paisley

“If it is the case that you need just a first 11 and three or four more players, then why did Christopher Columbus sail to India to discover America?”

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Author:Claudio Ranieri

“Our coaches want to be a part of South Carolina football when they win it for the first time. When they win the division, when they win the SEC, win a major bowl game, etc. The opportunities to do it all for the first time here make it extra special.”

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Author:Steve Spurrier

“This is the first time Denmark has ever reached the World Cup finals, so this is the most significant moment in Danish history.”

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Author:John Helm

“Tottenham are trying tonight to become the first London team to win this cup. The last team to do so was the 1973 Spurs team.”

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Author:Mike Ingham

“Jean Tigana has spent the entire first half inside Liam Brady's shorts.”

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Author:Jimmy Magee

“I'm sure coach Frank Rijkaard will want the Dutch to go on and score a fourth now - although obviously they'll have to score the third one first.”

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Author:Angus Loughran

“McCartney's first involvement is to be stripped by Saha”

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Author:Guy Mowbray

“The social issues outside of football are not as defined as they were earlier, when integration took place and certain rights were legislated. The Civil Rights movement is over. Individuals can buy homes wherever they want, travel first class wherever they want, eat wherever they want.”

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Author:Jim Brown

“I love our fans. Our fans are so supportive. It's been incredible to end four playoff games with 'Go Pack Go.' It's great at home, they travel well, it's on a first-name basis. It's a special play to play and all of us are blessed to play in Green Bay, and hopefully we will be repaying those fans with the Lombardi trophy.”

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Author:Aaron Rodgers

“It's certainly a loss for us here at the University of Washington, because Jeff Compher has been a wonderful friend and administrator. Jeff is a football man first, but he has the compassion and desire to make all of Northern Illinois' programs successful. He's one heck of a guy.”

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Author:Tyrone Willingham

“My first experience with football was not very good because I didn't plan on playing football. I was just playing hookie one day and I was a sophomore and decided not to go to class. And the principal - normally he does his rounds and I thought I had him down pretty good where he was going to be - he sort of walked up behind me and scared me. He noticed I could run real fast. So that's how I got introduced to football.”

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Author:Jerry Rice

“I wanted to be a broadcaster, sportscaster, or gameshow host from a very early age. I did my first broadcasting when I was 10 or 11 - into a tape recorder for my brother's football game, and for local events. A local radio station was experimenting with high school disc jockeys for rock and roll shifts - I applied - and got the job.”

“One of the things that I noticed in war was how difficult it was for our soldiers, at first, to realize that there are no rules to war. Our men were raised in sports, where a referee runs a football game, or an umpire a baseball game, and so forth.”

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Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“First of all, it would be great for world football to have a competitive Chinese team as China traditionally has deep relation to sports in general.”

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Author:Berti Vogts

“I kissed my first girl when I was 15, and then I lost my virginity when I was 17. So that's pretty good. It was just that when you're in high school, you're sort of forced into the normal world, where you're competing with the football players, just kind of in that world where somebody like me didn't quite fit in.”

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Author:James Mercer

“I love my country, and the mental and physical demands of the Navy SEALs was what I had been training for my whole life growing up in Montana. There's a reason Montana produces more SEALs than any other state. As a collegiate athlete, I enjoyed the mental and physical challenges Division I football presented. When a recruiter first told me about the Navy SEALs, I knew it was the right fit.”

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Author:Ryan Zinke

“The first and foremost requisite of a good football player is that he must have a burning desire to play the game. There is absolutely no substitute for this.”

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Book:Notre Dame Football: The T Formation

Source: Notre Dame Football: The T Formation

“My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.”

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Author:Lou Holtz

“You don't realize how long that NFL season is. It's a long season, especially in your first year. Not only do you spend a lot of time preparing for the draft and working out, but they you have OTAs, minicamps, training camp, preseason games. By the time you get to week six you've already had one of the longest years of your football life and you still have 11 weeks to go, plus the playoffs.”

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Author:Giovani Bernard

“I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous. I walk down the street or go to a football game and people shout, 'Hey Andy'. I hate that.”

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Author:Andy Rooney

“Football is my love. Football is what I'm going to do. I'm a football player first.”

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Author:Tony Gonzalez

“Basketball was always my first love, but once I had a good year as a senior, I figured the next step was to play college football.”

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Author:Ben Roethlisberger

“If I had stayed with football in college, I probably would have been a first-round pick.”

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Author:Antonio Gates

“In college football brad, you know, when you make a first down, first downs that you have possession of aren't really that important because if you make a first down it stops the clock”

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Author:Bob Griese

“I wrestled and played football in high school and in my last year, I started as a wrestler and actually had a fairly good record. But I hated to lose. I always gave it everything I had which, unfortunately, was not as much as I'd hoped for. But keep in mind, I feel like I got the most out of my ability. One moment that was special above all the rest was winning my last bout at the Naval Academy to finish the entire summer undefeated. That was thrilling, but what's more, it helped me in prison because the first time I got knocked around by the Vietnamese, it did not come as a total shock.”

“In my first season I was learning about English football in a new team. I scored 13 which isn't bad, but I think I can do better.”

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Author:Luis Garcia

“First, learn how to report traffic jams, then you can talk about football. (on Bulgarian journalists)”

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Author:Ivan Slavkov

“I was a football player. I liked it a lot...unfortunately that's where I first wrecked my knees. Playing high school football, getting cut across the knees. They haven't healed since. Back then they didn't have the surgery techniques that they have now.”

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Author:Mark Mendoza

“My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.”

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Author:Lou Holtz

“It's the premium time, the fourth quarter. October, November, December and now, if you will, going over into the first quarter in January. But really, football, that's when the interest is in the game.”

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Author:Jerry Jones

“Football is my first passion. I've played it since I was a little kid.”

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Author:Urijah Faber

“My son plays football so I coach a couple of his teams. My youngest son just started playing last year and I assistant coached for one of his teams. I try to be there as much as I can. I also want to kill the stereotype. I want them to respect me as a man and a father first and then if you like hip hop go buy my album.”

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Author:Rakim

“We're so concerned about being polite in society, and rightfully so, that it carries over onto a football team. But on a good football team, they are your friends, but first and foremost they have to be good teammates.”

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Author:Scott Frost

“An important mentor for me, in terms of teaching me that there's a right way and a wrong way to do things, was probably my football coach. And playing football was one of the first times in my life that I realized nothing is given to you. You have to work really hard.”

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Author:Kenny Chesney

“Some people say 'Why is a football coach concerned?' I explained I'm an American first and all Americans should care about justice.”

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Author:Jim Harbaugh

“When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down.”

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Author:Mike Krzyzewski

“There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.”

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Book:What it Takes to be Number One

Source: What it Takes to be Number One

“Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.”

“One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.”

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