Top 100 Winning Football Quotes
#1. The best thing I ever learned in life was that things have to be worked for. A lot of people seem to think there is some sort of magic in making a winning football team. There isn't, but there's plenty of work.
Knute Rockne
#2. If you said, 'What is the most important aspect of winning football games?' I don't think I could give you an answer to that question.
Cris Collinsworth
#3. Austin, Texas, and Columbus, Ohio, are the two toughest communities in which you have to put together a winning football team. They are both big metropolitan areas without professional football and major league baseball to sidetrack them.
Brent Musburger
#4. I'm a firm believer that if the other side scores first, you have to score twice to win.
Howard Wilkinson
#5. The wins and losses are over for Rice, the football player, who leaves with 38 NFL records. He was the easiest guy in the world to throw the football to, ... You always knew where he was headed.
Steve Young
#6. As of today, you do anything that I feel is disrespecting our program in any way, you are gone! From this day forward, everyone will be at practice in uniform as we will either build this program into something or we will destroy it!
George M. Gilbert
#8. 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
#9. There's nothing easy about winning a game in the National Football League, let alone winning a championship, things that we've done in the past. However, that's in the past.
Rodney Harrison
#10. In football, if you don't score a goal then you cannot win.
Roberto Mancini
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. If someone gave the Russians a football, they'd win the Super Bowl in two years.
Frank Mahovlich
#14. Four wins in four matches. It could not be better ... the world is fantastic.
Jose Mourinho
#15. To achieve any group goal, individuals must work to improve themselves as a means to improve the group.
George M. Gilbert
#16. What it takes to win is simple, it's not easy.
Marv Levy
#17. Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses
they tie
who cares? And why?
Edward Abbey
#18. 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
#19. It's all very simple: if you score one more than your opponent, you win.
Johan Cruijff
#20. Supporters have every divine right to slag your players off when they're not winning games.
Dean Windass
#21. If you don't score you are not going to win a match.
Bobby Robson
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. If you're going to win the Premier League, you're going to have to finish ahead of Chelsea and Manchester City.
Graeme Souness
#25. Systems don't win, players do.
Marv Levy
#26. Education depends on the quality of the teacher, not the site or beauty of the buildings-- nor, I might add, does it depend on the winning record of the football team, and I like football.
Anonymous
#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. We haven't scored which means you haven't got a chance of winning.
Bobby Robson
#30. Everything to me is about team football, and if we keep winning Super Bowl trophies, I'll be fine.
Justin Tuck
#31. I think the way we played was as important as winning the title, the way we did it with the players and the fans enjoying it.
Manuel Pellegrini
#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. The third year at a school for any head coach is the most important year for the program they are attempting to develop.
George M. Gilbert
#34. We spent our whole married life in the ultra-competitive world of professional football, Lauren and I had always tried to view it through God's eyes. As much fun as it was to be winning, we tried not to get caught up in it. We knew that our family life and our faith walk were more important.
Tony Dungy
#35. I think we had to hit rock-bottom in all facets of the program before we could ever start moving in a positive direction.
George M. Gilbert
#36. Winning means everything ... You show me a good loser and I'll show a loser.
George Steinbrenner
#37. I want to keep winning-the hell with the record
Randy Moss
#38. 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
#39. Humanity is in my heart. Do I suffer fools? No. Am I a stickler for my profession? Yes. I am a task master? Yes. My military background, football background, I'm a team player all the way, and I love winning.
Isaiah Washington
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. Nothing in life that is of value comes easy. If good things came easily then the value would be diminished. When we have a vested interest, when we give everything we have, then, and only then are those good times valuable.
George M. Gilbert
#43. Winning the Championship is like taking a 26-year ball and chain from around our legs. Now we can go forward, and hopefully dominate English football for the next 10 years, like Liverpool did.
Bryan Robson
#44. It is more likely that coaches have players go down in games they are losing than games they are winning.
George M. Gilbert
#45. Winning would create greater potential for change than talk alone.
Tony Dungy
#46. No matter who our opponents are, or who we are playing against, we want to win the game.
David Beckham
#47. The bottom line is winning. I want to do what we need to do to win football games.
Mike Singletary
#48. The coaches will offer a direction, a plan, routine, discipline and the players must develop the desire to work together accepting their roles as they learn in preparation for the season.
George M. Gilbert
#49. Hornergy' is Zen's term for the indomitable athletic edge powered by sexual restraint. The basketball, baseball and football teams haven't had a winning season in years. The table-tennis team, however, is undefeated.
Megan McCafferty
#50. I'd rather lose and live in Provo than win and live in Laramie
LaVell Edwards
#51. Football is about winning; it's that simple. You have to love what you do. If you're here for the money, than you don't belong here.
Vinny Testaverde
#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. Coaches must take calculated risks all the time. One thing is to talk about what you plan to do and another is to prepare and then execute a plan toward change.
George M. Gilbert
#55. They (Leeds United) used to be a bit like Arsenal, winning by one goal to nil or even less.
Nasser Hussain
#56. I love playing football but I am like everyone else, I hate losing and love winning.
Wayne Rooney
#57. 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. I learned it doesn't matter how you win. You play to your team's strength.
Tony Dungy
#59. 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
#60. Good players win you games, good formations stop you losing them.
Gordon Strachan
#61. I teach our young men that respect is earned each day on the practice field, in the classroom, and how each young man lives his life.
George M. Gilbert
#62. My favorite football memory isn't beating Florida or winning the bowl game ... My favorite memories are of playing football with my brothers and my dad in the front yard when I was younger.
Eli Manning
#63. It is so easy to judge those around us and decide their value without knowing who they really are or what they truly represent.
George M. Gilbert
#64. The Seahawks defense has to go balls deep to win this game.
Jon Gruden
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. I felt that we couldn't win the game. It was absolutely shocking.
Martin O'Neill
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. He's got great credentials by winning the World Cup but he did it with Brazil - my granny could probably have managed Brazil to World Cup success.
Gary Lineker
#72. Winning isn't imperative, but getting tougher in the fourth quarter is.
Bear Bryant
#73. There is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in winning a game that by all odds one should lose ... There has been a surrender at Notre Dame, but it is a surrender to excellence on all fronts, and in this we hope to rise above ourselves with the help of God.
Theodore Hesburgh
#74. The energy of college football rivals that of a live performance for me. I am an extremely analytical guy and predicting these games is right up my alley, especially with a little luck thrown in. It is even more fun when I am winning and I have to say, I have fared quite well in my predictions.
Rodney Atkins
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. Football is a direct reflection of life. There are wins, there are losses; you get knocked down, you get back up.
Chris Spielman
#79. We had enough chances to win the game. In fact we did win it.
Alex Smith
#80. The youth of America need routine, repetition toward excellence, a sound but not punishing discipline, and the opportunity to make mistakes without the feeling of failure.
George M. Gilbert
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. Winning all the time is not necessarily good.
John Toshack
#84. The old adage that you shouldn't change a winning team doesn't apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses.
Glenn Hoddle
#85. Don't tell those coming in the final result of that fantastic match, but let's just have another look at Italy's winning goalo.
David Coleman
#86. I have never asked to be the highest-paid coach in football. I have never asked to be paid like a Super Bowl-winning coach. I have never asked for more power.
Jim Harbaugh
#88. The great cancer facing all of us during this 'new millennium' is entitlement.
George M. Gilbert
#89. Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.
Bear Bryant
#90. 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
#91. This is not a must-win; World War II was a must-win (Referring to the Super Bowl)
Marv Levy
#92. Arsenal and Manchester United play the best football. They're not happy with one goal, they want to win by three.
Chris Coleman
#94. I don't think it's fair to 12-, 13- and 14-year-olds to say 'Show us you're a winner right now!' Winning isn't everything. I'll never buy that thing that if a boy loses a football game, he's a loser in life.
Joe Paterno
#95. 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
#96. I've got news for you. We're gonna win the game. I guarantee it.
Joe Namath
#97. Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.
Alan Shearer
#99. We lost because we didn't win.
Ronaldo
#100. 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
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