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Enjoy this page of motivational and inspirational Football Quotes from some of the greatest players and coaches of the game.


Football is an incredible game.
Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
-Tom Landry


If a team is to reach its potential,
each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals
to the good of the team.
-Bud Wilkinson


No talking. Talking doesn’t play football,
talking isn’t going to make you practice harder or play harder.
-Ken Simonton


I want to be remembered as the guy
who gave his all whenever he was on the field.
-Walter Payton


Do right.
Do your best.
Treat others as you want to be treated.
-Lou Holtz


When you’re playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder.
Show the world how much you’ll fight for the winners circle.
If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack,
one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor.
-Pat Riley


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


Show class, have pride, and display character.
If you do, winning takes care of itself.
-Paul “Bear” Bryant


Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
-Knute Rockne


Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
-Lou Holtz


Success is not forever and failure isn’t fatal.
-Don Shula


Football is an honest game.
It’s true to life. It’s a game about sharing.
Football is a team game. So is life.
-Joe Namath


 


I don’t like to lose,
and that isn’t so much because it is just a football game,
but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective.
-Knute Rockne


It’s not the size of the dog in the fight,
but the size of the fight in the dog.
-Archie Griffen


The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game.
They just ran out of time.
-Vince Lombardi


Don’t give up at half time.
Concentrate on winning the second half.
-Paul Bear Bryant


Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
-George Halas


To succeed…
You need to find something to hold on to,
something to motivate you,
something to inspire you.
-Tony Dorsett


It’s not whether you get knocked down;
it’s whether you get back up.
-Vince Lombardi


If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard,
you’ll be hard to beat.
-Herschel Walker


You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others.
That’s the mark of a true professional.
-Joe Paterno


Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
-Bo Jackson


If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.
-Ronnie Lott


The principle is competing against yourself.
It’s about self-improvement,
about being better than you were the day before.
-Steve Young

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As you can tell I love great quotes, and Bobby Knight stands alone with his.  Some of the best and funniest I’ve read

Bobby Knight’s philosophy on life and basketball can pretty much be summarized by these 10 best Bobby Knight quotes. Bobby Knight’s quotes have made him more well known than his coaching success. With 902 wins, Bobby Knight is the winningest coach in NCAA Division I history. Unfortunately, his legacy will be his numerous controversial quotes, “head butting” his son, and throwing a chair across the court in a moment of rage. While never the most well-liked, Coach Knight’s quotes have been both inspirational and head-scratching. Whether you love Bob Knight, or hate him, one thing is certain you will never forget him. Bob Knight has had hundreds of famous quotes, here are his top ten:

  1. “All of us learn to write in second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.”
  2. “The key is not the “will to win” . . . everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.”
  3. “There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I’ve always been too confrontational, especially  when I know I’m right.”
  4. “Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.”
  5. “If the NBA was on channel five and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel four, I’d watch the frogs – even if they were coming in fuzzy.”
  6. “Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.”
  7. “Discipline: doing what you have to do, and doing it as well as you possibly can, and doing it that way all the time.”
  8. “I told him to take a picture of his testicles so he’d have something to remember them by if he ever took another shot like the last one.”
  9. “You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.”
  10. “When my time on Earth is gone and my activities here are past I want that they should bury me upside down so my critics can kiss my ass.”

Bring home the gold: Follow the winning advice curated from the country’s top Olympic coaches to cross your own personal finish line.

1. Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won. -Bill Bowerman
The team: U.S.A. track and field, 1972. Bowerman, a former University of Oregon coach and co-founder of Nike, is widely credited with turning the town of Eugene into the running capital of the world (Olympic trials for track and field are currently held there).

2. The key is not the will to win. Everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.” -Bobby Knight
The team: U.S.A. men’s basketball, 1984 gold medal; a pre-NBA Michael Jordan was a key player on the team. Knight was also coach of the Indiana Hoosiers from 1971 to 2000.

3. A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning. -Billie Jean King
The team: U.S.A. women’s tennis, gold medal winners in both 1996 and 2000. King was an award-winning tennis player herself, with 39 Grand Slam titles.

4. “You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.” -Herb Brooks
The team: U.S.A. men’s ice hockey, 1980. Coached the team to a gold medal over the Soviet Union, who had won nearly every world championship and Olympic tournament since 1954, which made headlines as a “miracle on ice.”

5. I don’t plan on being disappointed. We plan on being really good, and obviously we plan on winning.” -Gregg Troy
The team: Head coach U.S.A. men’s swimming. Assisted U.S.A. women’s swimming, 1996, and U.S.A. men’s swimming, 2008. Troy has coached 68 Olympians, most notably Ryan Lochte, who has won six medals.

6. “What keeps me going is not winning, but the quest for reaching potential in myself as a coach and my kids as divers. It’s the pursuit of excellence.”- Ron O’Brien
The team: U.S.A. diving, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, and 1988. While coaching, O’Brien’s athletes collected 12 gold, three silver, and four bronze Olympic medals.

7. “I think sports gave me the first place where this awkward girl could feel comfortable in my own skin. I think that’s true for a lot of women-sports gives you a part of your life where you can work at something and you look in the mirror and you like that person.” -Teri McKeever
The team: U.S.A. women’s swimming, 2012. She is the first woman to serve as the head coach of a U.S. Olympic swimming team.

8. “You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself.” -Larry Brown
The team: U.S.A. men’s basketball, 2004. Brown has won over 1,000 professional games as coach in the ABA and NBA over his career.

9. “I have a rule on my team: When we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it’s tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.” -Mike Krzyzewski
The team: U.S.A. men’s basketball, 2008 and 2012. Under Krzyzewski, the U.S. team won gold in Beijing, 2008.

These are the some of the absolute best sports movie quotes of all time: ADD SOME IF YOU CAN COME UP WITH A FEW.  Some just make me Laugh, and others are inspiration

1. “Yo, Adrian!” Rocky
2. “You don’t understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am. Let’s face it. It was you, Charley.” On The Waterfront
3. “Show me the money!” Jerry Maguire
4. “Juuuust a bit outside!” Major League
5. “I’m out there busting my buns every night. Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes.” Airplane!
6. “Sweep the leg.” The Karate Kid
7. “There’s no crying in baseball!” A League of Their Own
8. “You guys. You lollygag the ball around the infield. You lollygag your way down to first. You lollygag in and out of the dugout. You know what that makes you? Larry!” Bull Durham
9. “Oh, there they go. There they go. Every time I start talkin’ ’bout boxing, a white man got to pull Rocky Marciano out their ass. That’s their one, that’s their one. Rocky Marciano! Rocky Marciano!” Coming to America
10. “You’re gonna eat lightning, and you’re gonna crap thunder!” Rocky
11. “If you build it, he will come.” Field of Dreams
12. “Noonan!” Caddyshack
13. “Pick me out a winner, Bobby.” The Natural
14. “There’s one thing I want you to do for me. Win. Win!” Rocky II
15. “Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool.” The Hustler
16. “Well, Nuke’s scared because his eyelids are jammed and his old man’s here. We need a live … is it a live rooster? We need a live rooster to take the curse off Jose’s glove, and nobody seems to know what to get Millie or Jimmy for their wedding present.” Bull Durham
17. “Mike Eruzione! Winthrop, Massachusetts! I play for the United States of America!” Miracle
18. “Jocks only think about sports. Nerds only think about sex.” Revenge of the Nerds
19. “I’m gonna make Gretzky’s head bleed for SuperFan99 over here.” Swingers
20. “What about Brett Fav-ruh?” There’s Something About Mary
21. “Which brings me to my second point, kids. Don’t do crack.” The Waterboy
22. “Get him a body bag, yeaaahhh!” The Karate Kid
23. “There will be an additional springboard installed for Melon’s dive, the Triple Lindy!” Back to School
24. “I guess what I’m trying to say is, if I can change, and you can change, everybody can change.” Rocky IV
25. “… Whose bright strips and broad stars, in the perilous night. O’er the ramparts we watched, as the da da da da da da. And the rocket’s red glare, lots of bombs in the air …” The Naked Gun
26. “If he had held the ball laces out like he’s supposed to, Ray would never have missed that kick. Dan Marino should die of gonorrhea and rot in hell!” Ace Ventura
27. “I enjoy watching football in the afternoon. One of the things I love about this country. Baseball, too. I love baseball ever since Arnold Rothstein fixed the World Series in 1919.” The Godfather Part II
28. “The price is wrong, bitch!” Happy Gilmore
29. “I just slid my ticket across the table and I said, ‘Sorry, guys, I gotta see about a girl.’ ” Good Will Hunting
30. “So we finish the 18th and he’s gonna stiff me. And I say, ‘Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know?’ And he says, ‘Oh, uh, there won’t be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.’ So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice.” Caddyshack
31. “Sometime when the team is up against it and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go out there with all they’ve got and win just one for the Gipper.” Knute Rockne, All-American
32. “Put it in the face!” Coming to America
33. “Hey, Yankees, you can take your apology and your trophy and shove ‘em straight up your ass!” The Bad News Bears
34. “Billy, listen to me. White men can’t jump.” White Men Can’t Jump
35. “Being perfect is about being able to look your friends in the eye and know that you didn’t let them down, because you told them the truth. And that truth is that you did everything that you could. There wasn’t one more thing that you could’ve done. Can you live in that moment, as best you can, with clear eyes and love in your heart? With joy in your heart? If you can do that, gentlemen, then you’re perfect.” Friday Night Lights
36. “Sex and golf are the two things you can enjoy even if you’re not good at them.” Tin Cup
37. “U-G-L-Y, you ain’t got no alibi! You ugly! You ugly! Yo momma said you ugly!” Wildcats
38. “I don’t hate Balboa. I pity the fool.” Rocky III
39. “You’re 5 foot nothin’, 100 and nothin’ and you have nearly a speck of athletic ability. And you hung in there with the best college football team in the land for two years. And you’re gonna walk outta here with a degree from the University of Notre Dame. In this life, you don’t have to prove nothin’ to nobody but yourself.” Rudy
40. “In case you haven’t noticed — and, judging by the attendance, you haven’t — the Indians have managed to win a few here and there and are threatening to climb out of the cellar.” Major League
41. “Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.” The Pride of the Yankees
42. “If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your potential, to be the best that you can be, I don’t care what the scoreboard says. At the end of the game, in my book, we’re gonna be winners.”
43. “You never played for Charlie Comiskey.” Eight Men Out
44. “People always say to me, ‘When you get to the NBA, don’t forget about me.’ Well, I should’ve said back, ‘If I don’t make it to the NBA, don’t you forget about me.’ ” Hoop Dreams
45. “Uh, Lord, hallowed be thy name. May our feet be swift; may our bats be mighty; may our balls be plentiful. Lord, I’d just like to thank you for that waitress in South Bend. You know who she is — she kept calling your name. And God, these are good girls, and they work hard. Just help them see it all the way through. OK, that’s it.” A League of Their Own
46. [Ed Rooney learns the score of the baseball game is nothin'-nothin'.] “Who’s winning?” Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
47. “I was crippled for the rest of my life. I got better. He made me better. Hell, you made me better.” Seabiscuit
48. “Hey, unless you’re gonna kiss me, get your hands off my ass.” Any Given Sunday
49. “I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.” Chariots of Fire
50. “I sure miss playing basketball. I got depressed as hell when my athlete’s foot and jock itch went away.” Breaking Away
.51 “I’ll make it.” Hoosiers

There is a time you really need to take a moment to get motivated.  Some you may have heard before, but each one can mean something to you in your own way. 

Motivational sport quotes

Sports don’t build character; they reveal it”.


“My favorite part of the game is the opportunity to play.” -Mike Singletary


Excellence is not a singular act but a habit. You are what you do repeatedly.” -Shaquille Neal


“It’s not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it’s what you put into the practice.” -Eric Lindros


“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” -Coach Darrel Royal


“A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.” -Ara Parashegian


“Do not throw in the towel; use it for wiping the sweat off your face.” -Unknown


“Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records.” -William A. Ward


“The purpose of any athletic endeavor is to challenge human limits both on and off the playing field.” -Unknown


“There are no gains without pains.” -Benjamin Franklin


“Winners make goals, losers make excuses.” -Unknown


I’ll always be Number 1 to myself.” -Unknown


Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” -John Wooden


Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.”  -Ray Knight


“The important thing in life is not the victory but the contest; the essential thing is not to have won but to have fought well.” -Unknown


Nice guys. Finish last.” -Unknown


“Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.”  -Magic Johnson


“If you are not big enough to lose, you are not big enough to win.” -Walter Reuther


“Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.” – Henry Van Dyke