Great Football Quotes

[gamecockfandrew]

If you have anymore to add, please do. In my coaching book, I have some more, but these will do for now. For the record, I have two favorite quotes. One is by Lombardi himself, "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." I'm trying to find the other because it's long, and I can't remember it all; it starts: "Football is for the uncommon player, with the uncommon capacity for commitment." Anyways, here they are:

"At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any."
Erk Russell / Georgia Southern.


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



"After you retire, there's only one big event left....and I ain't ready for that."
Bobby Bowden / Florida State


"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it."
Lou Holtz / Arkansas
When you win, nothing hurts."
Joe Namath / Alabama



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



"If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password,
Bear Bryant / Alabama


"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

Ok. The rest didn't paste like I wanted them too. Add your favorites if you want.

[Lalli25]

"Quitters never win and winners never quit"

I believe it was lombardi

Also Holtz has a great speach about gaining respect when at ND you can find it on youtube.

[cccock]

" If Jesus were a football player, He'd play fair, He'd play clean and He'd put the guy across the line on his butt."

Barry Rice, football player for Liberty U.

[doccock]

Here's a few:


John Madden: Inspirational Football Quotes
The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

Joe Don Looney: Inspirational Football Quotes
A good back makes his own holes. Anybody can run where the holes are.

Gale Sayers: Inspirational Football Quotes
Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to work hard, and that's it.

Ken Simonton: Inspirational Football Quotes
Hey, we're like soldiers. Would you go to the Roman army and ask them if they thought they were going to win the battle? If I didn't think we could win, I wouldn't be here. I'd stay home and get fat
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[ra742002]

ccock do you attend Liberty?

[ra742002]

also, we had a few at Union High

"no excuses, just effort"

"tradition never graduates"

[doccock]

Dan Birdwell: Inspirational Football Quotes
You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.


Joe Theismann: Famous Football Quotes
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

Eric Morecambe: Famous Football Quotes
I think football would become an even better game if someone could invent a ball that kicks back.

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[doccock]

Bill Peterson: Football Quotes
You guys line up alphabetically by height.

John Heisman: Football Quotes
When in doubt, punt!

RB George Rogers, about the upcoming season: Stupid Football Quotes
I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first.


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[FL_native]

"He'll take hisn and beat yourn, then take yourn and beat hisn" Bum Phillips about Don Shula.

[CockyInSeattle]

"That's the kind of hit, that when you wake up, your clothes are out of style" - John Madden, as a commentator.

[CockyInSeattle]

"Losers are the ones that don't get up. You'll never beat me as long as I still get up." - Mine

[Gamecock Rob]

If winning doesnt matter why do they keep score. Vince Lombardi

Just remember football is 80% mental and 40% physical. Steve Emtman in Little Giants

[hayesnumber76]

This is one that the head coach at the school I coached at my first year used... its a Vince Lombardi quote... it goes: "Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, We may catch excellence." This would be a good quote for us, the gamecock nation, to hold true to. if we dont get it all... at least we made strides to get to it.

[SpurFever2009]

"Life is like a box of chocolates...." oh..wrong thread

[Gamecock_KC]

Clemson recruit Ray Forsythe, who was ineligible as a freshman because of academic requirements:

"I play football. I'm not trying to be a professor. The tests don't seem to make sense to me, measuring your brain on stuff I haven't been through in school."


:lol: :clemcock: :rotfl:

[SteeleSpur]

"The more you practice the luckier you get"

[maddog44]

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
( Darrell Royal ):football:

[CockyInSeattle]

"Clemson University will never be anything without me." - Danny Ford

[USC62]

A few more by Vince Lombardi:
The Green Bay Packers never lost a game, they just ran out of time.

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

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

:kill::kill:

[Cocks&Fins]

Bum Phillips, when asked why he always took his wife with him to road games:

"Because she is too ugly to kiss goodbye."

[gamecockfandrew]

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


We have that one in our locker room. Great quote.

[Bigmo-cock]

"Life sucks; get a helmet"-Dennis Leary. I know it wasn't used as a football quote but I use it as one.

[CofC07]

I'd recruit Charlie Manson if he could run a 4.4 40 (yard dash)..Jimmy Johnson

[Gyle41386]

I don't know any other way to lead but by example - Don Shula

My all-time favorite:
Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football - John Heisman

[Visormaniac]

What do I think about the execution of my offense? I am in favor of it.
John McKay, Tampa Bay Bucs

I can read a playbook by the light of a jukebox just as well as I can anywhere.
Ken Stabler, Oakland Raiders

[cccock]

ra742002, no I am a Carolina man. 1981. Just loved the quote.

[RbrewDawg]

I shall Quote the Greatest High School football coach (maybe 2nd) to come out of the great state of South Carolina, a living Legend< Coach Willie Varner. After a pitful set of downs:
"Kick it Girls"
Sometimes he would make us kick on third if he was really pissed.

Go Cocks, Go Wooodruff Wolverines!!!!

[RbrewDawg]

"Today, they will remember the titans"-denzel

[willy]

If you have anymore to add, please do. In my coaching book, I have some more, but these will do for now. For the record, I have two favorite quotes. One is by Lombardi himself, "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." I'm trying to find the other because it's long, and I can't remember it all; it starts: "Football is for the uncommon player, with the uncommon capacity for commitment." Anyways, here they are:

"At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any."
Erk Russell / Georgia Southern.


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



"After you retire, there's only one big event left....and I ain't ready for that."
Bobby Bowden / Florida State


"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it."
Lou Holtz / Arkansas
When you win, nothing hurts."
Joe Namath / Alabama



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



"If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password,
Bear Bryant / Alabama


"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

Ok. The rest didn't paste like I wanted them too. Add your favorites if you want.



Those are some very good quotes.

[Freehawk]

"No mentals Babe"

-Herman King, a dude I played FB with in high school

[GotSpurrier82]

"Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of stangers." ~ Merle Kessler

"Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent." ~ Dave Barry (nothing against Chicago or their fans; I just thought it was funny.)

"Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck." ~ Don Shula

[behindenemylines]

Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it. ~Heywood Hale Brown

Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental. ~Doug Plank

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings. ~George F. Will

When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team. ~George Raveling

I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault. ~Jack Tatum

[NastyNash]

IVE GOT A GREAT ONE FOR YALL, "You can write this down: My prediction is that i am going to be the winningest coach is south carolina history." Steve Spurrier

[GVegasCock]

couple of my Lou Holtz favorites:

"we'll move the ball, I just hope it's forward"

and (from 1999) "I sleep like a baby at night - I wake up every 2 hours crying."

[cock13]

has this one really not been said yet....

"You PLAY TO WIN THE GAME. Hello? You play to win the game. You don't play it just to play it."
-Herm Edwards

[spurman14]

"Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation causes your worst fears to come true"



^^i think tebow and korn should write that one down and put it in there back pocket before they play us, their gonna need all the help they can get

[UNIONCOCK]

"It takes a little more to be a Champion" - Champion's athletic apparel slogan.

"Get your finger out of your butts!" - Coach Shell Dula

"Play like a machine, men." - Coach Shell Dula

"Never be satisfied." - Coach Shell Dula

"Nothing is as good as it seems. Nothing is as bad as it seems." - Lou Holtz

[CockyInSeattle]

When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team. ~George Raveling


Okay, that one got a laugh out of me!

I remember one from Holtz (I think he was speaking of Petty's speed), "If he was in a race with a pregnant woman, he'd come in third.":lol:

[scargirl]

"Individuals play the game but teams win championships."

In the east college football is a cultural exercise, on the west coast it is a tourist attraction. In the midwest,it is cannibalism. But in the Deep South, it is a religion, and saturday is the sabbath."

"The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but rising again after you fall."
Vince Lombardi

"Life is short.... go no huddle"

"American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party"

[Bigmo-cock]

My senior year at Practice in high school we had a problem with a player on scout team. He didn't want to listen to the coaches all he wanted to do was throw down the blocking dummy he was suppose to hold and try to make a name for himself by trying to hit the RB/QB in the drills we were running. He was a hefty guy probably weighing about 340. Well after he pissed the coach off enough he decided he wanted to run this kid off. He called the offense to huddle and asked who wanted a piece I said I definately wanted some because I had broken my finger (I didn't know at the time) earlier in the day when he pulled one of his blocking dummy ole's. I went to the other side of the formation and we ran a counter trap back to his side where I would block the first dummy (or man) head up to outside the guard. Well he of course ignored the coach yet again, threw down the dummy, and fell for the fake. When he realized the back he thought had the ball didn't he started to turn back to the inside looking for the ballcarrier. Little did he know I was coming to make him famous and I was pissed. Anyone who has ever played O-line and has ever trap blocked a guy knows what the ideal situation I am talking about is. I hit him full force, left chest, slightly below the numbers face and hands unloading everything I had into him. He flew about 8 yards landing in a semiconcious heap while his sports glasses flew into about three different pieces. As he got up in tears the coach yelled at him and told him he wanted real players on his team not someone who was gonna cry. The guy walked off the field straight to the locker room never to disgrace my team with his presence again. The coach with a smirk on his face returned to the huddle and said his famous quote to us.

Bruce Hill South Aiken high spring 1995- "Damn men, that made me want to go home and have sex with my wife!!!"

It may not be a big thing to some but me and my buddies can't forget it. We still quote that guy alot.

[USArmyCock]

PLAYOFFFFFS?!?!

[doccock]

Okay, that one got a laugh out of me!

I remember one from Holtz (I think he was speaking of Petty's speed), "If he was in a race with a pregnant woman, he'd come in third."

He was referring to Ryan Brewer.
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