There are countless great football quotes from footballers, managers, and pundits. In this list, you will find 40 of the most famous football quotes:
- “It’s not the SIZE of the dog in the fight, but the size of the FIGHT in the dog”. – Archie Griffin, Cincinnati Bengals
- “I learned all about life with a ball at my feet” – Ronaldinho
- “When you’re GOOD at something, you’ll tell everyone. When you’re GREAT at something, they’ll tell you.”- Walter Payton, Chicago Bears
- “WINNING is not everything–but making the EFFORT to win is”- Vince Lombardi, Green Bay Packers
- “Every defeat is a victory in itself.” – Francisco Maturana García
- “If what you did YESTERDAY seems big, you haven’t done anything TODAY.”- Lou Holtz, New York Jets
- “A CHAMPION is simply someone who did NOT give up when they wanted to.”- Tom Landry, Dallas Cowboys
- “There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true.” – Neymar
- “The man who complains about the way the ball BOUNCES is likely the one who DROPPED it.” – Lou Holtz
- “Your TALENT determines what you can do. Your MOTIVATION determines how much you are willing to do. Your ATTITUDE determines how well you do it.” – Lou Holtz
- “The harder you WORK, the harder it is to SURRENDER”- Marv Levy, Buffalo Bills
- “If you want to WIN, do the ordinary things BETTER than anyone else does them day in and day out.”- Chuck Noll, Pittsburgh Steelers
- “Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don’t like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.” – Bill Shankly
- “Life is TEN per cent what happens to you, and NINETY per cent how you respond to it.” – Lou Holtz
- “You FAIL all of the time. But you aren’t a FAILURE until you start blaming someone else”- Bum Phillips, Houston Texans
- “If you’re not IN the parade, you WATCH the parade. That’s life.”- Mike Ditka, Chicago Bears
- “The ONLY discipline that lasts is Self-discipline”- Bum Phillips
- “Today I will do what others WON’T, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others CAN’T”- Jerry Rice, San Francisco 49ers
- “How do you WIN? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That’s how you WIN.”- Bum Phillips
- “Work isn’t WORK unless you would rather be DOING something else,”- Don Shula, Miami Dolphins
- “Coaching is not how much you KNOW. It’s how much you can get players to DO.” – Bum Phillips
- “For EVERY pass I caught in a game, I caught a THOUSAND in practice.”- Don Hutson, Green Bay Packers
- “Remember, TOMORROW is promised to no ONE.”- Walter Payton
- “We would ACCOMPLISH many more things if we did not think of them as IMPOSSIBLE.”- Vince Lombardi
- “It takes 20 YEARS to build a reputation and 5 MINUTES to ruin it.”- Peyton Manning, Denver Broncos
- “There is NO substitute for WORK.”- Vince Lombardi
- “Winning isn’t getting ahead of OTHERS. It’s getting ahead of YOURSELF.”- Roger Staubach, Dallas Cowboys
- “Once you LEARN to quit, it becomes a HABIT.”- Vince Lombardi
- “In order to WIN the game, you must first not LOSE it.”- Chuck Noll
- “If you’re not gonna go ALL the way, why go at ALL?”- Joe Namath, New York Jets
- “It’s not whether you get knocked DOWN, it’s whether you get UP.”- Vince Lombardi
- “If you do not believe you can do it, then you have no chance at all” – Arsene Wenger
- “To win, you have to score one more goal than your opponent.” – Johan Cruyff
- “If it doesn’t matter who WINS or loses, then why do they keep SCORE.” – Vince Lombardi
- “Behind every kick of a ball, there has to be a thought.” – Denis Bergkamp
- “The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.” – Sepp Herberger
- “A penalty is a cowardly way to score.” – Pelé
- “Football is played with your head. Your feet are just the tools.” – Andrea Pirlo
- “Every disadvantage has got its advantage.” – Johan Cruyff
- “Football is the ballet of the masses.” – Dmitri Shostakovich
