Quotes on American Football

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.

Remind your critics when they say you don't have the expertise or experience to do something that an amateur built the ark and the experts built the Titanic

Most train to be part of the game. The greatest train to be the game: I am the game. Third-and-9, two-minutes left, that's what I train for. I train for moments everyone runs from. I run for them.

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.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

Every time I step on the field, I'm going to give my whole heart regardless of the score.

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

You can't go out and practice average on Wednesday, average on Thursday, okay on Friday and then expect to play well on Sunday.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men.

To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

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

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

If the government is to try and ban private consumption of alcohol and tobacco, it must surely ban such activities as hang-gliding, skiing, rock-climbing and so on. Where should it stop? Rugby? American Football? Ice Hockey? _x000D_ Insofar as the government has information not generally available about the merits or demerits of the items we ingest or the activities we engage in, let it give us the information. But let it leave us free to choose what chances we want to take with our own lives.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.