Best Football Quotes (Funny or Inspirational)...

Got the nickname in college.

That boy ain't ever gonna build a science rocket but he flat out knows how to get around the corner.

that was suppose to be character! oops

Excuses are the nails used to build the house of failure

The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep running.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs - henry ford

All I knew is that I never wanted to be average - michael jordan

'To have a great purpose to work for, a purpose larger than ourselves, is one of the secrets of making life significant, for then the meaning and worth of the individual overflow his personal borders and survive his death." -- Will Durant

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory." -- Mahatma Gandhi

"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." -- Albert Pike

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ''Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion" - ali

If no one laughs at your dreams, you're not dreaming big enough.

"One who is weak must prepare against his enemy.
One who is strong makes his enemy prepare against him."

the only job where you start at the top is digging a hole


the true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching


There are no shortcuts to get to any place worth going.

Never let a day go by where you missed the opportunity to get better

you accomplish victory step by step, not by leaps and bounds

It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts

“Fear not those who argue, but those who dodge!”

“Master your emotions or be mastered by them.”

“Great challenges require great teamwork!”

“The first key to being a team player is being willing to adapt yourself to the team.”

“Un-teachable people have a difficult time with change, and as a result they never adapt well.”

“Be emotionally secure in yourself, those who are not meet with suspicion the addition of another talented person to the team.”

“When difficult times come, winners find a way!”

“People who are focused on themselves are less likely to make changes for the team.”

“Not why it can’t be done, but how it can be done.”

“If you are willing to change and adapt for the sake of your team, you always have a chance to win.”

“Collaboration is working together aggressively; collaborative teammates bring something to the table that adds value to the relationship of the team.”

“Be supportive, not suspicious of teammates.”

“When you work together with your teammates, you can do remarkable things; if you work alone you leave a lot of victories on the table.”

“Do you bring cooperation and added value to your teammates even to the people you don’t enjoy being with?”

“There are no half hearted champions.”

“Ordinary people with commitment can make an extraordinary impact.”

“Commitment is not an emotion; it’s a character quality that enables us to reach our goals.”

“Emotions go up and down, but commitment is rock solid.”

“Commitment usually is discovered in the midst of adversity.”

“Without communication, you don’t have a team; you have a collection of individuals.”

“Great communicators give attention to potentially difficult relationships.”

“If you can’t, your team won’t!”

“Teams go, to go to players.”

“All players have a place where they add the most value.”

“The strength of the team is impacted by its weakest length.”

“Winning teams have players who make things happen.”

“Rotten attitudes ruin a team.”

Attitudes have the power to lift up or tear down a team.
Abilities + Attitudes = Results
Great Talent + Rotten Attitudes = Bad Team
Great Talent + Bad Attitudes = Average Team
Great Talent + Average Attitudes = Good Team
Great Talent + Good Attitudes = Great Team

“Most bad attitudes are the result of selfishness.”

“The team fails to reach its potential when it fails to pay the price.”


“Teammates must be able to count on each other when it counts.”


Character + Competence + Commitment + Consistency + Cohesion = Accountability


“The difference between two equally talented teams is leadership.”

“When you’re winning nothing hurts.”

“To finish first you must finish.”

“Don’t find fault find a remedy.”

“Loyalty fosters unity, and unity breeds team success.”

“All getting separates you from others, all giving unites to others.”

“To be trusted is a greater complement than to be loved.”

“You can’t make the other fellow feel important in your presence if you secretly feel she is a nobody.”

“Anyone who loves her opinions more than her teammates will advance her opinions but set back her team.”

“Enthusiasm is contagious. It’s difficult to remain neutral or indifferent in the presence of a positive thinker.”

“People can succeed at almost anything for which they have enthusiasm.”

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

“People will always move toward anyone who increases them and away for others who devalue them.”

“……trying times are not time to quit trying.”

“You have not lived today successful unless you’ve done something for someone who can never repay you.”

“Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.”

“Courage has no greater ally than preparation, and fear has no greater enemy.”

“A team isn’t really a team if it isn’t going anywhere!”

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”

“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”

“You’ve go to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.”

“The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.”

“Most of us plateau when we lose the tension between where we are and where we ought to be.”

“Discipline is doing what you really don’t want to do so that you can do what you really want to do.”

“Dependability is more than ability alone.”
“What you tolerate you encourage.”

"If that guy gets pass you I will cut your body in half with the edge of a coin. It can be done. I saw it on CSI:NY"


Awesome.

Best of the Rest:

"Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died." - Frank Leahy, Notre Dame

"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it." - Lou Holtz, Arkansas

"Football is only a game. Spiritual things are eternal. Nevertheless, Beat Texas." - Seen on a church sign in Arkansas prior to the 1969 game.

"Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated." - Lou Holtz, Arkansas

"A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall." - Frank Leahy, Notre Dame

"There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you." - Woody Hayes, Ohio State

"Always remember..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David." - Shug Jordan, Auburn

"They whipped us like a tied up goat." - Spike Dykes, Texas Tech

"The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb." - Knute Rockne, Notre Dame

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

"You learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life." - Paul Dietzel, LSU

“Dance with the one who brung ya.” - Darrell Royal, Texas A&M

"We few, we happy few, we Band of Brothers; for he who stays and sheds his blood with me today, shall be my brother." - Bill Shakespeare

I am hurt, but I am not slain;
I’le lay me downe and bleed a-while,
And then I’le rise and fight again.


Marv Levy quoted this old english poem alot.....


Rooster

scratch where it itches

hayden fry

VERY minor correction, but it's "he today who sheds his blood with me, shall be my brother".


I've always been partial to:

"In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility: but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; then lend the eye a terrible aspect"
---Henry V, III.i.5-9

That was always my goal as a player, be as modest and humble as I could in day to day life, but then be as "terrible" and "hard-favour'd" as possible on the field.

A couple more -

For coaches:

"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one becomes a master." -- Hemingway

For players:

"...to set the cause above renown, to love the game beyond the prize. To honor, while you strike him down, the foe that comes with fearless eyes. To count the life of battle good and dear the land that gave you birth, and dearer yet, the brotherhood that binds the brave of all the Earth." -- Sir Henry Newbolt

"Its an old story, but the glory of it is forever." Virgil

"Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps twice." -- St. Jerome

"The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently but the courage to live like a man." -- Thomas Carlyle

And to parents and sometimes administrators - this one hangs in my office:

"Rather let us have men whose manhood
is only a continuation of their boyhood;
natural characters still - such that are able
and fertile for heroic action; and not that
sad spectacle with which we are too familiar,
educated eyes in uneducated bodies." --- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ok, here's a couple more -

"I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win some noble renown." -- Plato

and

"The parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a LATE parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up daises. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot." --- John Cleese of Monty Python

"I threw a ball into the air.
It hit the ground.
I knew not where.
And that is why
I sit and dream
On the bench,
with the second team!"
--Red Faught

It's embarrassing to admit I had that poem memorized by the third practice of Red's arrival. He kept reciting it to me. By the fourth practice, I was a wide receiver.