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Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.
-John Madden
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The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.
-John Madden
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The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.
-John Madden
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When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time.
-Max McGee
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When you win nothing hurts.
-Joe Namath
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The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
-Joe Paterno
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Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
-Joe Paterno
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I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field.
-Walter Payton
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Playing football in the morning is like eating cabbage for breakfast.
-Pressbox Maxim
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Let's win one for the Gipper.
-Knute Rockne
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No star playing, just football.
-Knute Rockne
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I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.
http://www.barnard.edu/amstud/resources/strenuous/trletter.htm
-Theodore Roosevelt
from a letter to his oldest son, October 4, 1903
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Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it.
-Luke Salisbury
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I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
-Gale Sayers
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Some people think football is a matter of life and death...I can assure them it is much more serious than that.
-Bill Shankley
'The Sunday Times' (London), October 4, 1981
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Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
-Don Shula
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NFL owners should quit worrying about silly things like players celebrating in the end zone. They should give them something to really celebrate. Get rid of the artificial surfaces.
-O. J. Simpson
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Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
-John Steinbeck
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Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
1996, on coach Bill Walsh
-Joe Theismann
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There is a progression of understanding vis-?-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its national pastime pedestal in less than fifteen years.
-Hunter S. Thompson
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Every team is beatable, you know.
-Tom Coughlin
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My thoughts just before the first real college game of my life: The honor of my race, family and self is at stake. Everyone is expecting me to do big things. I will. My whole body and soul are to be thrown recklessly about the field. Every time the ball is snapped, I will be trying to do more than my part. Fight low, with your eyes open and toward the play. Watch out for crossbucks and reverse end runs. Be on your toes every minute if you expect to make good. (signed) Jack
Trice was injured in the game (Oct. 6) but doctors missed the severity of his injuries. At 3 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 8, 1923 he died of hemorrhaged lungs and internal bleeding throughout the abdomen.
-Jack Trice
letter written by Jack Trice to himself on the eve of the his Iowa State football game with Minnesota, October 5, 1923
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If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.
-Herschel Walker
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My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.
-Herschel Walker
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Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.
-George Will
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