Inspirational Football Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old inspirational football quotes, inspirational football sayings, and inspirational football proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

At least 80 percent of the success of the football team is determined by the fight and spirit that they put into their play. George Halas
The first and foremost requisite of a good football player is that he must have a burning desire to play the game. There is absolutely no substitute for this. Frank Leahy
In football you can make it if you've got the 'I'm-going-to-get-up-off-the-ground-and-kick-your-ass' attitude. Burt Reynolds
In football, you're taught to react by being aggressive, taught to react with violence. If you can't separate that on the field and off the field, you're going to be in a lot of trouble in your life. Troy Polamalu
Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference. Robert Griffin
In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard. Theodore Roosevelt
In the football match, everything is complicated by the presence of the other team. Jean Paul Sartre
Football is the only sport where you put people together, it doesn't matter if you are rich, or poor, or black, or white. It is one nation. This is the beauty of football. Pele
I always think about what I missed,and I think that was my driving force never be satisfied with what I've done. Thierry Henry
It was fun, having speed and being able to jump. Especially playing football. I played wide receiver and defensive back. Jacoby Ellsbury
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. Gale Sayers
A football team is like a company. All of the people working in a company are not supposed to love each other, but they are supposed to be professional. Emmanuel Petit
Football is all about winning things as a team but it's also important to pick up individual awards along the way. Steven Gerrard
In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision. Lionel Messi
Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise. Johan Cruijff
Football is like life it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. Vince Lombardi
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan. Tom Landry
If any thing goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you. Paul Bear Bryant
We believed it was not our formations that made us good, but rather how we played. Tony Dungy
Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team. Fernando Torres
A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt. Vince Flynn
You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional. Joe Paterno
Football is a contact sport and there's a lot that goes into it. But I have committed myself for a long time to doing it, and because I love doing it so much I want to make that commitment. Tom Brady
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
Football is a vocation and an opportunity for ministry. But it's not a life. Tony Dungy
The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts. Darrell Royal
A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are. Bill Shankly
At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact. George Plimpton