Football Believe Quotes

#1. One reason I won't compromise is because I believe honesty helps you win over the long haul. You can win a game tomorrow and lose a team. You can lose a game tomorrow and win a football team.

Lou Holtz

#2. Once an athlete feels his coach does not believe in him resentment develops and everyone loses at that point.

George M. Gilbert

#3. I had this urge to play the game of football, because so many people - I shouldn't say so many, a handful of people - said I couldn't do it. For me, it was one of those things that I just believe in my talent that the Lord gave me, and I wanted to take advantage of it.

Russell Wilson

#4. Sports like baseball or baseball are easy to dramatise, because all of them have a pause and that helps with the tension. Football never stops. I'm a football fan. I believe in the beauty of the game.

Carlos Cuaron

#5. Im looking forward to the World Cup because I believe Wayne Rooney could be one of the major finds in world football.

Bobby Charlton

#6. LeSean McCoy has become the most exciting player in the National Football League. I believe he's the MVP this year.

Kurt Warner

#7. The development of the "We Believe" philosophy must be real and not cosmetic. Everyone must buy in and understand that it is not a motivational tool, but rather something very personal that should be lived and that all must believe in order for true success to be achieved.

George M. Gilbert

#8. And if God has given you a lot of ability, I believe you should be held to a higher level of expectation.

Tony Dungy

#9. The whole experience ... I have been just stunned. It has helped so much. I can't believe that in this sport that has no so-called heart, it's really so full of heart. That's the truth; Football is full of heart.

Devon Still

#10. Some people believe that football[soccer] is a matter of life and death. I'm very dissappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much more important than that.

Bill Shankly

#11. To be a footballer was just a dream, and I don't believe in dreams. I only deal in what is real. To be honest, I've never thought about what I could get out of football or where it would take me. I just wanted to play. I'm the same now.

Thierry Henry

#12. I believe that if I committed to basketball, I could make an impact in the NBA. I now see football as my job and my greatest challenge.

Julius Peppers

#13. I haven't retired from international football - I still believe I have a part to play in the future of England.

David Beckham

#14. I don't think the world of football is so serious. It's important to have distance about things and about yourself. If we believe we are kings or gods, we become crazy. We all know it's a game and we all enjoy it together.

Eric Cantona

#15. So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win.

Colin Powell

#16. It's a massive compliment to me to be known in Asia because Asia is the way forward in football, along with the Middle East. I believe that strongly.

Timothy F. Cahill

#17. People shy away from it [MMA] because they think it's a brutal, brutal sport, and I've said, 'Guys, MMA is safer than football and boxing, ... And people tell me they don't believe it. Am I not the most credible person to give you the answer to that?

Herschel Walker

#18. You cannot just switch football on and off; it's intense. There were times when I probably shouldn't have got involved in certain things and said certain things, but you feel that sometimes you have to stand up for what you believe. Maybe the supporters looked to me to stand up as well.

David Dunn

#19. Great football coaches have the vision to see, the faith to believe, the courage to do - and 25 great players.

Marv Levy

#20. Not to be narcissistic, but I truly believe in order to make yourself better, you should see what you did before and what was good about that and what wasn't - same way a football team plays a game and then they go back and watch film.

Jake Owen

#21. I will not promise boys positions, I will not promise any of you football success, I will demand discipline, character, respect, and work ethic throughout the program. If I succeed in getting people to believe then success will follow.

George M. Gilbert

#22. If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, "Roll, Tide, Roll!"

Bear Bryant

#23. I'm one of the most competitive guys in the NFL. Believe me, nobody wants it more than me.

Randy Moss

#24. If you come out with racist comments, then I believe you shouldn't be allowed to come to a football match. Don't be so narrow minded, you're bigger than that.

Rio Ferdinand

#25. An Atheist in Alabama is one that doesn't believe in Bear Bryant.

Wally Butts

#26. I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.

Alex Ferguson

#27. The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it.

Bear Bryant

#28. When you're fifteen and somebody tells you they love you, you're gonna believe them. And when you're fifteen don't forget to look before you fall. In your life you'll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team. I didn't know it at fifteen.

Taylor Swift

#29. There's room for boys' and girls' football in the world-that's what I believe.

David Beckham

#30. In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this!

Parminder Nagra

#31. School is not easy for kids and football wasn't easy for me ... but if it's something you truly believe in, it's something you've got to fight for and be willing to do what you need to do make it work.

Emmitt Smith

#32. People say you're too good - you're never too good to go down, believe me. I've seen it at Leeds. We had a better team at Leeds than we have now and they went down eventually.

Jonathan Woodgate

#33. His football does not seem to suffer by all of this going on around him. You look at his passing and he makes it look so simple. When he passes the ball, it always seems to go where he wants it to go. That sounds simple, but believe me, it is not.
(on David Beckham)

Graham Taylor

#34. Some people believe football (soccer) is a matter of life and death. I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.

Bill Shankly

#35. Even though professional soccer has become more about business and less about the game itself, I still believe football is a party for the legs that play it and for the eyes that watch it.

Eduardo Galeano

#36. You have to believe in yourself. Belief is one of the biggest things in football. If you believe you can win the Premier League then of course it can happen.

Rafael Van Der Vaart

#37. I can pick up any sport pretty quickly - believe me, I know how to throw a football.

Marisa Miller

#38. If I believe that I became the best quarterback that I could possibly be, the best football player that I could possibly be ... That's how I'm going to measure my career as a success or not.

Tim Tebow

#39. 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

#40. Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.

Vince Lombardi

#41. You just can't believe how quickly things happen in football and the way life turns. I went from being the bad guy, the worst player who gets all the criticism, to being the player who makes the difference and scores the important goals.

Luis Suarez

#42. I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.

Jose Mourinho

#43. They have a choice as a club. They don't have to sell. Maybe Southampton's objectives have changed. They were looking to be a Champions League club, I believe. They obviously wanted to change ... I don't have sympathy, no.

Brendan Rodgers

#44. I'm pretty sure most of them sincerely believe that the First Amendment actually means they can say anything they want without consequences. Like no, that does not protect your butt when you say something ignorant on Facebook and end up getting kicked off the football team or whatever!

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#45. When the child is twelve, your wife buys her a splendidly silly article of clothing called a training bra. To train what? I never had a training jock. And believe me, when I played football, I could have used a training jock more than any twelve-year-old needs a training bra.

Bill Cosby

#46. I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport. You can win in different ways, by being more of a team, or by having better individual players. It is the team ethic that interests me, always.

Arsene Wenger

#47. Hell, I live like I did when I was 35. I don't believe in retirement groups because I don't believe in retirement. How long can I keep coaching? How about forever? I'll never walk off the field.

Sid Gillman

#48. I can't believe I only knew you for a year and a half - how can one person change you in two football seasons? But you did.

Heather Demetrios

#49. Believe it or not, one teacher used to call me a giant spastic for not being able to play football.

Peter Capaldi

#50. People who are in it for their own good are individualists. They don't share the same heartbeat that makes a team so great. A great unit, whether it be football or any organization, shares the same heartbeat.

Bear Bryant

#51. Love", I said, "is the rug they pull out from under you. Love is Lucy always lifting the football at the last second so that Charlie Brown falls on his ass. Love is something that every time you believe in it, it goes away. Love is for suckers, and I'm not going to be a sucker ever again.

Jennifer Weiner

#52. I believe the game is designed to reward the ones who hit the hardest - If you can't take it, you shouldn't play!

Jack Lambert

#53. I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.

Alan Ball

#54. I believe we have the best football coach in the country in Urban Meyer. I had the privilege of hiring him, as you know, and I think he is doing fabulous work.

Gordon Gee

#55. I can't believe anyone can have played the game of football as well as Messi.

Michael Owen

#56. We believe that African football is among the best in the world and very much characterized the Puma brand mentality, which is to win.

Jochen Zeitz

#57. In football we always said that the other team couldn't beat us. We had to be sure that we didn't beat ourselves. And that's what people have to do, too-make sure they don't beat themselves.

Woody Hayes

#58. I believe that I have a platform because God blessed me with the talent to play football. Having that talent, my job is to be responsible with it.

Benjamin Watson

#59. I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.

Stephen Covey

#60. I wanted to show them I will never give up. We have to keep together. I still believe in myself. I will never change. The players need to release the rubbish from their brains.

Paolo Di Canio

#61. I don't care if it's politics, religion or football. I believe you have to keep opening your mind. And shut your mouth sometimes!

Tony Gonzalez

#62. There is only one, believe it or not. I did get knocked up by a baller. A big football player.

Jessica Simpson

#63. I am a believer in passing the ball on the ground, I was lucky to be part of teams like that at Arsenal, with the French national team and with Monaco and at Barcelona. I know you can win in other ways, but I believe that is the way football should be played.

Thierry Henry

#64. Looking back I find it hard to believe that I could forge a career in anything other than football but I didn't do too badly in my final exams and there were a few business-related courses that interested me.

Kenny Cunningham

#65. As a professional athlete, I believe that I need to explore my opportunities to the maximum, in order to excel and continue to play the best football I can.

Hidetoshi Nakata

#66. My idea of a good hit is when the victim wakes up on the sidelines with train whistles blowing in his head ... I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.

Jack Tatum

#67. I already believe I am the best linebacker in the game. Now, I have to show one more thing ? that I am the most dominating, influential person in the game and the best football player to ever put on a pair of cleats.

Ray Lewis

#68. I played a little basketball, but basketball interfered with theater season. That's when we did our term plays and did nutshell versions of Shakespeare for English classes. And, believe me, I got a fair amount of looks from the guys on the team. 'You're in theater but you can play football?'

Dennis Haysbert

#69. To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard.

Theodore Roosevelt

#70. I can't believe how many people don't have time to cook but have time to watch football and 'The Voice.' They're certainly making a choice.

Tom Douglas

#71. I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.

Brett Favre

#72. I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.

Roy Keane

#73. I know what it takes to win. If I can sell them on what it takes to win, then we are not going to lose too many football games.

Bear Bryant

#74. I don't know about voodoo, but I believe in destiny.

Drew Brees

#75. Coming from bad results, you have more tension and you get more into the game, maybe. You never know which is best. I prefer to come from good results. You have more confidence and you believe you are doing things well. But in football everything can change very quickly.

Tito Vilanova

#76. This is a year and a few months after the transplant. Before I had it my doctors told me that it would be the biggest thing that I ever had to face and believe me, when they take your liver out of ya and put another one in it's like replacing a football in your stomach.

Evel Knievel

#77. The only reason you get drafted or even looked at by the NFL is because they believe you can play at the next level ... if they believe I can do that, you know I believe I can do it.

Robert Griffin III

#78. I believe that if you die trying to be your best, the world is still a better place.

Deacon Jones

#79. If I could start my life all over again, I would be a professional football player, and you damn well better believe I would be a Pittsburgh Steeler.

Jack Lambert

#80. The socialism I believe in is everybody working for the same goal and everybody having a share in the rewards. That's how I see football, that's how I see life.

Bill Shankly