Best football & loses Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It's very important that you focus on winning games and being consistent down the stretch. I think that's what we're focused on. All of the other stuff about who wins and who loses and how many wins do we need, if we're focusing on that, then that's not good.”

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Author:Mike Singletary

“This is how we loosen up for the morning announcements. Whoever has the football when the bell rings loses.”

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Author:Tom O'Connor

“High national emotions are permissible when a soccer team is playing precisely because they are impermissible at most other times. There aren't, simply, many other places where you can sing your national anthem until you lose your voice without causing a riot. In the context of soccer, flag-waving nationalism - even chauvinistic, anti-foreigner, flag-waving nationalism - is acceptable in Britain.”

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Author:Anne Applebaum

“However good an English team is, they will always have an additional advantage. It is that European players know that their English opponents will come at them in the belief they will win, and they can always be guaranteed never to stop fighting. They have a natural aggression that they are born with. If it ever goes, English football will lose its most valuable dimension.”

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Author:Johan Cruijff

“On current form, both teams will probably lose.”

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Author:Aidy Boothroyd

“Whichever country you are, if you lose games you are criticised. It's only when it's England it's like a new world war.”

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Author:Sven-Goran Eriksson

“Some guys lose their focus. They get caught up in the business deals or the endorsements, and they lose their focus. For me, it's always about football. I've never lost sight of what's making all these other things happen.”

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Author:Peyton Manning

“The closest Ive come to knowing myself is in losing myself. Thats why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.”

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Author:Kris Kristofferson

“I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American readers.”

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Author:Peter Robinson

“When you are young nothing is more important than football but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.”

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Author:Jermain Defoe

“Every time you lose you die a little bit. You die inside...a portion of you. Not all of your organs. Maybe just your liver.”

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Author:George Allen

“I would like to lose some of the weight that I have put on since I stopped playing football.”

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Author:John Barnes

“I'd rather be a football coach. That way you only lose eleven games a year.”

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Author:Abe Lemons

“It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques.”

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“He is a very complete, spectacular footballer. He always fights for the ball and tries to lose his marker to help his team-mates - either to defend or to have a shot on goal. For any football player in the Premiership, Scholes is a player you want to emulate. I would happily end my career with the medals that Scholes has. I am young and I hope that I will be able to surpass him - but it is not going to be easy.”

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Author:Cesc Fabregas

“Football is about making mistakes. Who makes the most, loses the game.”

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Author:Johan Cruijff

“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

“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.”

“Losing builds character. You know who said that? A loser! Guy who got his ass stomped every day, basketball, football, baseball, lose, lose, lose and lose. All right, I'm talking about me.”

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Author:Christopher Titus

“I'm really only capable to two emotions at this point: lust and hunger. I lost revenge a few years back, and even then, it was reserved only for ex-girlfriends and particular football games that caused me to lose a lot of money.”

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Author:Jason Mulgrew

“I mean, Dad was one of these people who simply could not lose, you know? He could not stand it when a kid was beating him. He would go crazy when the child came to that moment, which, you know, you have to come to - I mean, Dad played Old Maids like he played football. He just simply had to win every single thing every single time.”

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Author:Terry Gross

“Football - it's not fun when you lose. That's a heartbreaking thing. But then there's a new week, and a new opportunity and I definitely get happier and happier as that new opportunity approaches. So 'win the next game,' that's my mindset.”

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Author:Jim Harbaugh

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

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

“When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.”

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