Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vince Lombardi

In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally.

Vince Lombardi

[Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.

Vince Lombardi

Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization...

Vince Lombardi

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

Vince Lombardi

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

Vince Lombardi

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

Vince Lombardi

I would say that the quality of each man's life is the full measure of that man's commitment of excellence and victory - whether it be football, whether it be business, whether it be politics or government or what have you.

Vince Lombardi

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

Vijender Singh

I'm a big fan of the 'Rocky' series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Look at football, where you still have injuries no matter how much they improve the helmets and other equipment.

Sting

I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.

Steve Henderson

I'd catch a punt naked, in the snow, in Buffalo, for a chance to play in the NFL.

Steve Jobs

So [Polaroid's Dr. Edwin] Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack the code of color vision. The man is a national treasure. I don't understand why people like that can't be held up as models: This is the most incredible thing to be - not an astronaut, not a football player - but this.

Steve Cotterill

I don't want to give Robbie Blake any praise, but he was superb.

Steve Cotterill

If we'd kept a clean sheet tonight we'd have won 1-0.

Steve Coppell

He's carrying his left leg, which, to be honest, is his only leg.

Steve Coppell

The lad got over-excited when he saw the whites of the goalpost's eyes.

Steve Coppell

I'm not going to make it a target, but it's something to aim for.

Sri Chinmoy

Whether we meditate individually or collectively, there is one thing we absolutely must do: we have to meditate consciously. Making an unconscious effort is like forcing oneself to play football in spite of one's utmost unwillingness. One plays, but gets no joy. Conscious effort is like playing football most willingly. One gets real joy. Similarly, conscious meditation gives us inner Delight from the soul.

Ruud Gullit

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

Ruud Gullit

Football develops, it becomes quicker, players develop as athletes.

Ruud Gullit

Politics and football don't mix.

Ruud Gullit

I am happy with everything I achieved in my football career. I don't think I could have done any more.

Ruud Gullit

In L.A., nobody is talking about football. No television stations. You see it nowhere.

Ruud Gullit

Being a football manager is no fun at all. You have to put up with all the hassle. It is not surprising that so many turn grey or have heart attacks.

Ruud Gullit

You only stop learning when you quit.

Ruby Wax

I knew nothing about football, then someone showed me a film of Petit and I realised how interesting the game could be. He is divine. When I met him I could barely speak, he was so gorgeous. Women will love that show.

Ron Jaworski

The heartbeat of a football team is the quarterback position and I think everyone who has any intelligence about the game understands you must have consistency at that position to be a championship team.

Ron Jaworski

As I learn more and more about the six-year extension of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, it's obvious to me that NFL owners understood that they were going to get a new deal done at all costs.

Ron Jaworski

To go to the next level, you have to be special, and I look for those special qualities in those players, those qualities that I think will translate to the NFL.

Roger Milla

Here in Cameroon, football is our leading political party. It's football alone that that unites us, it's football alone that brings us good things - football is the window into our country - so we don't mess around with it.

Roger Milla

If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.

Roger Staubach

In business or in football, it takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to produce spectacular results.