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American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.
Sep 10, 2025
If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.
If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
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.
Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
I wanted to have a career in sports when I was young, but I had to give up the idea. I'm only six feet tall, so I couldn't play basketball. I'm only 190 pounds, so I couldn't play football, and I have 20/20 vision, so I couldn't be a referee.
Our strength is that we don't have any weaknesses. Our weakness is that we don't have any real strengths.
Football is easy if you're crazy as hell.
Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.
I've got news for you. We're gonna win the game. I guarantee it.
The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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
When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.
Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.
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.
The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.
It's difficult to follow your dream. It's a tragedy not to.
If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.
Somewhere inside, we hear a voice. It leads us in the direction of the person we wish to become. But it is up to us whether or not to follow.
Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
You can't go out and practice average on Wednesday, average on Thursday, okay on Friday and then expect to play well on Sunday.
Every time I step on the field, I'm going to give my whole heart regardless of the score.
A winner never stops trying.
Football doesn't build character, it reveals character.
I may win and I may lose, but I will never be defeated
Football is just a game. What matters is what you play for.
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
Alabama fans love Alabama football. Auburn fans love Auburn.
Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.
You guys line up alphabetically by height.
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
True loyalty is that quality of service that grows under adversity and expands in defeat. Any street urchin can shout applause in victory, but it takes character to stand fast in defeat. One is noise - the other, loyalty.
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
Performing at my best is important to me and should be to everyone. I am blessed that my dad is a chiropractor. Getting adjusted regularly - along with practicing other good health habits that my mom helped me to establish - are all part of my goal to win in life and on the field.
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? 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.
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
As you get older, youre always maturing, youre always learning something new about yourself.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.