Quotes About Great Football Players

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

Marv Levy

#2. Republicans don't want anyone having more fun than they do, and the Democrats don't want anyone making more money than they do. Libertarians want you to make money and have fun.

Andre Marrou

#3. My mom used to tell me: 'It's not what you weigh; it's what you look like.'

Gina Carano

#4. We scored a goal and defended until the end with great spirit. We have a lot of young players and I hope we can keep on like this.

Lorik Cana

#5. For me, there's nothing that beats playing. When I'm not playing, I'll watch games on the television, watch stuff on You Tube, everything. I just live for football, love watching great players.

Jermain Defoe

#6. I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.

Dale Murphy

#7. The main reason for doing it now had more to do with the players. This is a great group. This particular group has really worked hard to prepare themselves. And we have a chance to have a good football team.

LaVell Edwards

#8. But that happiness, no doubt, was a lie invented for the despair of all desire. She now knew the smallness of the passions that art exaggerated.

Gustave Flaubert

#9. William McKinley Oswald was my high school football coach. He was a great coach and had a profound influence on my life. But I think he could have learned his method of motivating players from an army drill sergeant.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#10. Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.

Benedict Of Nursia

#11. Louisiana has a heritage of great players that play their high school football within the boundaries of Louisiana.

Les Miles

#12. Tom Coughlin is great with the players and he is what you see with the media. He's a good guy and he's a fun guy, but at the same time he's a serious guy when it comes to winning and it comes to football.

Michael Strahan

#13. When you have great players, playing great, well that's great football!

John Madden

#14. Perception of personal danger very often set people on the path of virtue.

Donna Leon

#15. Who am I to deny my Master pleasure, simply because it is not at the hands of myself? He is free to do as he will, because of the life that he has given me. I am thankful for him, for the fact that out of all of us, I am the one that he chooses to keep and care for as his own.

Astrid Knowles

#16. Every profession has changed. Journalism has changed. Medicine has changed. Technology has changed and it evolves. The same is true of football. Free agency has now allowed teams to be a dynasty as they have been before. It is not a great thing for the fans, but it is a good thing for the players.

Marv Levy

#17. Love is so much better when you're not married.

Maria Callas

#18. A great football team is the right balance and the right mixture of players. Good leaders, good communicators and good technicians. You need people that are strategically astute. People need passion, desire and most importantly, a willingness to keep learning.

Hope Powell

#19. I am bewildering you a little. Just enough to help you forget what you came to believe, so that you can remember what you've always known.

Martha N. Beck

#20. They (low-minded) ones should never be trusted.

Chanakya

#21. Good catch," Tanner said. "Next time do it before it comes out of your mouth.

Gillian Flynn

#22. I'm from a council estate myself, and the biggest release we had as kids was football. That's where all the great players learn their trade - as kids having a kickabout.

Colin Cooper

#23. Because one has the animal instinct to seek out the people that suits one - you see people that go on life's journeys and get muddled along the way. If you look at their lives they've always gone with the wrong people ... can you say it's the wrong people - I don't know ...

Charlotte Rampling

#24. What to wear? I could think of no guidelines on what we were wearing this season to a party forced on you to celebrate an unwanted engagement that might turn into a violent confrontation with a vengeful maniac. Clearly brown shoes were out, but beyond that nothing really seemed de rigueur.

Jeff Lindsay

#25. It's great to have atmosphere at the stadium, but football is all about the players.

Isco

#26. Self-denial means knowing only Christ, no longer knowing oneself. It means no longer seeing oneself, only him who is going ahead, no longer seeing the way which is too difficult for us. Self-denial says only: he is going ahead; hold fast to him.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#27. Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull.

Steve Sabol

#28. Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

Frederick William Faber

#29. 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