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I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for.
Sep 10, 2025
Life is great; football is better. Steve Sabol.
Traditionally, Seattle has been a great sports town and great football town. What the Huskies have achieved over the years has been pretty amazing. That's how I got my first taste of football - when I went with my father to Husky Stadium.
When you have great players, playing great, well that's great football!
Maine Road was a great football stadium but as time moved on it stayed where it is.
Life is great, football is better.
It's a group of guys that put their mind to going out and playing great football. Everybody that needed to step up, stepped up. Everybody that needed to make a play, made a play and that's what it's all about.
I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success.
If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.
Always remember..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do
I am a great football player. I had my own club when I was 14 years old. Football is in my blood, and I have been a fan of Fulham for the last 30 years.
You can't spell Citrus without UT
At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any.
Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.
A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.
In order to create you have to believe in your ability to do so and that often means excluding whole chunks of normal life, and, of course, pumping yourself up as much as possible as a way of keeping on. Sort of cheering for yourself in the great football stadium of life." (Barnes & Noble Review, email dialogue with Cameron Martin, Feb. 09, 2009)
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
When you play a match, it is statistically proven that players actually have the ball 3 minutes on average ... So, the most important thing is: what do you do during those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball. That is what determines wether you're a good player or not.
Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
The principle is competing against yourself.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
Greece won the 2004 European Championship with the oldest trick in the book: man-for-man marking. Why? Because nobody expected it - and by the time they knew what Otto Rehhagel's team were about, it was too late. Great football is like great comedy in that way. It is all in the timing.
Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.
There are two kinds of people in the world, Notre Dame lovers and Notre Dame haters. And, quite frankly, they're both a pain in the ass.
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.
If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
When you win, nothing hurts.
Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.
Attitude determines how well you do it.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.