Top 100 Football Win Sayings
#1. There's only one plan in football: win you next match.
Johnny Giles
#2. 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.
Vince Lombardi
#3. I'm a firm believer that if the other side scores first, you have to score twice to win.
Howard Wilkinson
#4. With United, we'd all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it togther.
David Beckham
#5. I'm very honest and I know where I am. If you look at the table and the games we have got left to win, we need a miracle.
Gus Poyet
#6. In football, if you don't score a goal then you cannot win.
Roberto Mancini
#7. I said to them last week that I'd like them to win ugly and they certainly won ugly today. That was the ugliest thing I've seen since the ugly sisters fell out of the ugly tree.
Terry Butcher
#8. For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is role model for children around the world ... Messi will be the player to win the most Ballons d'Or in history. He will win five, six, seven. He is incomparable. He's in a different league.
Johan Cruijff
#9. If someone gave the Russians a football, they'd win the Super Bowl in two years.
Frank Mahovlich
#10. The car business is a lot like football. In football, you have to win once a week. In the car business, you have to win every day.
Tom Dempsey
#11. What it takes to win is simple, it's not easy.
Marv Levy
#12. 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
#13. You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn't mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It's just like a football season. Everything's not going to go perfect.
Tony Dungy
#14. We're in the top six, we've got five points and I've told the lads we need another 80 to win the League.
Joe Kinnear
#15. Brazil is crazy about football. People, they wait for this moment, but this doesn't mean we are going to win the championship. That is the problem.
Pele
#16. If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.
Paul Bryant
#17. To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it's digging deep, it's doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.
Tom Brady
#18. It's all very simple: if you score one more than your opponent, you win.
Johan Cruijff
#19. If you don't score you are not going to win a match.
Bobby Robson
#20. When you think of me as a football player, I would like for people to think that I put it on the line every time. Good or bad, win or lose, I put it on the line.
Joe Greene
#21. Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some - or occasionally lose.
David Pleat
#22. We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supports Liverpool. He was Everton for a while because of his family - but it's all Liverpool now.
Linda McCartney
#23. If you're going to win the Premier League, you're going to have to finish ahead of Chelsea and Manchester City.
Graeme Souness
#24. Systems don't win, players do.
Marv Levy
#25. I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players.
Pele
#26. I remember my late father, who was the biggest football fan I have ever known, used to stress when I was younger that, win or lose, you always have to compete with honor.
Adam Richman
#27. When you win, there's glory enough for everybody. When you lose, there's glory for none.
Bear Bryant
#28. Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win
Vinnie Jones
#29. Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.
Vicente Del Bosque
#30. You are responsible to each other because when you win a game of football, you only need eight players to perform well.
Alex Ferguson
#31. Our coaches want to be a part of South Carolina football when they win it for the first time. When they win the division, when they win the SEC, win a major bowl game, etc. The opportunities to do it all for the first time here make it extra special.
Steve Spurrier
#32. We were in an awkward position against Yugoslavia in that in order to win we needed to score more goals than they did.
Jose Antonio Camacho
#33. Deeper fulfilment is rather different from the happiness of seeing a good film or watching your team win at football, and it doesn't come at the push of a button.
Geoff Mulgan
#34. 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
#35. I will do whatever it takes to win a football match.
Stuart Pearce
#36. I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn't win any more competitions in that time.
Arsene Wenger
#37. In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.
Xavi
#38. Football, in its purest form, remains a physical fight. As in any fight, if you don't want to fight, it's impossible to win.
Bud Wilkinson
#39. Tottenham are trying tonight to become the first London team to win this cup. The last team to do so was the 1973 Spurs team.
Mike Ingham
#40. What does it mean when someone supports Manchester United or whatever it's called?"
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"They always win. So they've started believing they deserve to.
Fredrik Backman
#41. Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.
Fernando Torres
#42. One of the more bizarre games I played as a kid was something called 'kill the man.' It was a cross between football and rugby, which found the person carrying the ball a target of some hungry tacklers. I still don't know why we enjoyed the game because it was impossible to win.
Chuck Todd
#43. The match against Brazil was football at its best. Both sides had opportunities to win the game.
Michel Patini
#44. Pro football is a game; not a war. It's for win or lose, not life or death ... but say that in the summer, for winter brings the playoffs, and a season is at stake.
John Facenda
#45. No matter who our opponents are, or who we are playing against, we want to win the game.
David Beckham
#46. Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.
Darrell Royal
#47. The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.
Darrell Royal
#48. The bottom line is winning. I want to do what we need to do to win football games.
Mike Singletary
#49. Morale - the will to win, the fighting heart - are the honored hallmarks of the football coach and player. Likewise, they are characteristic of the enterprising executive, the successful troop leader, the established artist and the dedicated teacher and scientist.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#50. I'd rather lose and live in Provo than win and live in Laramie
LaVell Edwards
#51. Any game is important to me. At Boston College, when I went out for the spring games, I wanted to win. Maybe it is more important than other preseason games. It's just that everyone is expecting a lot from me in my first week of professional football. I want to confirm my expectations.
Doug Flutie
#52. Who will win the League? It's a toss of a coin between three of them.
Matthew Le Tissier
#53. Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points.
Theodore Dreiser
#54. Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
Gary Lineker
#55. Arsene Wenger's idea is not only to play good football. It's to play good football to win. In my day, we knew that with our style we could hurt teams and win trophies too. But we did it our way, with the positional game, passing, movement.
Dennis Bergkamp
#56. 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
#58. Attitude is the whole thing in football. Every team has the talent and the coaching. Motivation makes the difference. The teams that win stay healthy and interested.
Sid Gillman
#59. I hear people saying 'the way the game should be played'. Rubbish. That's the worst saying in football. You win the game, then worry about the way it should be played.
Alan Hansen
#60. If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
Fran Tarkenton
#61. I learned it doesn't matter how you win. You play to your team's strength.
Tony Dungy
#62. I've played long enough to know that certain games are certain ways. You're gonna throw it less in others, more in others, and just look at what the team needs that day to win a football game.
Tony Romo
#63. Good players win you games, good formations stop you losing them.
Gordon Strachan
#64. The goal is to win. It's not about making money. I have many much less risky ways of making money than this (buying Chelsea football club). I don't want to throw my money away, but it's really about having fun and that means success and trophies.
Roman Abramovich
#65. 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
#66. The Seahawks defense has to go balls deep to win this game.
Jon Gruden
#67. We didn't win a Super Bowl together, and that's something I'll always regret - not knowing what that feels like. But you and I have won more games together than any quarterback and coach combination in the history of the NFL.
Dan Marino
#68. My name is not only Archie Griffin, it's two-time Heisman trophy winner Archie Griffin. Once you win the award it's with you for the rest of your life, and I realize that and I'm proud of that. It changed my life.
Archie Griffin
#69. You learn to understand it, but if you step back, you do think it is either strange or unfair. But I know that if you don't score, play well or win, you are wrong to have a helicopter and fly home each week to see your kids. You are wrong to have a business outside of football.
Michael Owen
#70. I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.
Bob Devaney
#72. I felt that we couldn't win the game. It was absolutely shocking.
Martin O'Neill
#73. So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win.
Colin Powell
#74. I'm not trying to win a popularity poll. I'm trying to win football games.
Woody Hayes
#75. I never was very big on praying for victory. For God to give a big win to the Denver Broncos, wouldn't He have to take it away from somebody else, say, the Green Bay Packers?
Deacon Jones
#76. Every player feels differently about playing football. We are all different people. I am the type who wants to win all the time. I hate to lose.
Luis Suarez
#77. At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.
George Plimpton
#78. All I know is, I was trying to win the football game. And the bottom line is, you have to do what you think is right. You have to go with your gut. And if you don't do that, then I think you regret a lot of things later on.
Mike Singletary
#79. I have always had this necessity to win. When I played with my friends on the street, football or running, I always wanted to be the best,
Jorge Lorenzo
#80. When it's over, it's over is part of football's greatest appeal to me. When a game ends, win or lose, it's time to prepare for the next one.
Tony Dungy
#82. We had enough chances to win the game. In fact we did win it.
Alex Smith
#83. 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
#84. On the football field, you're still going out to there to win. And if you're not going out there to win, what are you going out there for?
Richard Sherman
#85. Supporting the English cricket team is like supporting a second division football team. I support Norwich City football team and when they lose I really don't mind because I expect them to; but when we win I'm so happy - much happier than any Arsenal supporter could ever be.
Stephen Fry
#86. Asking for help didn't bother him. He'd learned team-playing on the football field. It didn't matter who scored any one point; everyone worked together to make the team win.
Anonymous
#87. Football players win football games.
Chuck Knox
#88. Hey, we're like soldiers. Would you go to the Roman army and ask them if they thought they were going to win the battle? If I didn't think we could win, I wouldn't be here. I'd stay home and get fat.
Ken Simonton
#89. To be able to get a football team that's capable of competing for world championships, you always got to get a little bit lucky, but you got to have all phases to win it all.
John Elway
#90. People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
Vince Lombardi
#91. Unfortunately, sometimes the fans forget who puts the money and passion into the club. It's funny, but when you win, it's the coach and the players who are responsible, but when you lose, it's the owner's fault; but that's football.
Andrea Della Valle
#92. That win means so much. They got back into the game but I think we showed today that we want to go to the wire. We want to go all the way.
Steven Gerrard
#93. This is not a must-win; World War II was a must-win (Referring to the Super Bowl)
Marv Levy
#94. Arsenal and Manchester United play the best football. They're not happy with one goal, they want to win by three.
Chris Coleman
#96. I've never been part of a tie. You didn't lose, but you didn't win.
Andy Dalton
#97. I've got news for you. We're gonna win the game. I guarantee it.
Joe Namath
#98. We lost because we didn't win.
Ronaldo
#99. There's nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren't going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more.
Woody Hayes
#100. Sometimes in football you deserve to win but lose. Other times you deserve to lose or draw but you win. That is the game, and it's why I've always said you should never try to predict anything in football, especially in Europe.
Mario Balotelli
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