85 Nfl Quotes

Following is our list of nfl quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about nfl players.

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Short Nfl Quotes

  • A champion is simply someone who did not give up when he wanted to. — Tom Landry
  • The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence. — Tom Landry
  • Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. — Vince Lombardi
  • Those who stay will be champions — Bo Schembechler
  • If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out. — Chuck Noll
  • You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else. — Bum Phillips
  • Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it. — Lou Holtz
  • Respect all. Fear none. — Bum Phillips
  • Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck. — Don Shula
  • Nothing. And, I don't start before noon. — Bum Phillips

Nfl Image Quotes

When it's first and a mile, I won't give it to him. - Bum Phillips quote

When it's first and a mile, I won't give it to him. — Bum Phillips

What separates us is that we expect to be great. - Deion Sanders quote

What separates us is that we expect to be great. — Deion Sanders

Nfl Football Quotes

A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order. — Bud Grant

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven. — Knute Rockne

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

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

Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that! — Bill Parcells

Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong. — Chuck Noll

When it's too hard for them, it's just right for us. — Marv Levy

A good leader gets people to follow him because they want to, not because he makes them. — Tony Dungy

Where else would you rather be than right here, right now? - Marv Levy

Where else would you rather be than right here, right now? — Marv Levy

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

Nfl Players Quotes

If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn't doing a very good job. — Bill Walsh

We want to win. The Raider fans deserve it. The Raider players deserve it, even my organization deserves it. You have to win and you have to win with a vision for the Super Bowl. That's our passion here. — Al Davis

I think if you're a good high school player that you have the ability to be a good college football player. If you're a good college football then you have the ability to be a great NFL player. — Robert Griffin III

A guy like Malcolm who makes that type of quick, instinctive plays, that's one of his strong suits. I don't think it surprised any of us players because that's what his skill set is. — Tom Brady

Make sure when anyone tackles you he remembers how much it hurts. — Jim Brown

Thank you to my family, my fans and fans of other teams for their support. The NFL is a fraternity of brothers and I am thankful for the tweets, phone calls and text messages from my fellow players. God Bless everyone and thank u so much. — Adrian Peterson

Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl. — Bill Peterson

If you're mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It's about the same. — Bob Golic

Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental. — Doug Plank

I think the thing about that was I was always willing to work; I was not the fastest or biggest player but I was determined to be the best football player I could be on the football field and I think I was able to accomplish that through hard work. — Jerry Rice

Nfl Games Quotes

Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time. — Arnold J. Mandell

If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game. — Al Davis

I'm the best corner in the game. When you try me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree, that is the result you are going to get. Don't you ever talk about me. — Richard Sherman

Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life. — Joe Namath

Don't cuss. Don't argue with the officials. And don't lose the game. — John Heisman

Every game's a championship game. When we focus that way, get prepared that way-that this is it, you know, this is the last one, the biggest one-you get ready, you get amped up, you get that laser focus and you're ready to play. — Russell Wilson

I've got news for you. We're gonna win the game. I guarantee it. — Joe Namath

I dedicate myself and work hard in the weight room and treat every practice as if it were a game. — Adrian Peterson

You play to win the game. — Herman Edwards

I create a different playlist for each and every [NFL] game. Before the game, to gametime, to warmups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode. — Cam Newton

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More Nfl Quotes

By your own soul, learn to live. If some men force you, take no heed. If some men hate you, have no care. Sing your song, dream your dreams Hope your hopes, and pray your prayers. — Bo Schembechler

The culture precedes positive results. It doesn't get tacked on as an afterthought on your way to the victory stand. Champions behave like champions before they're champions: they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners. — Bill Walsh

Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen. — Pete Carroll

Failure is part of success, an integral part. Everybody gets knocked down. Knowing it will happen and what you must do when it does is the first step back. — Bill Walsh

I truly believe in positive synergy, that your positive mindset gives you a more hopeful outlook, and belief that you can do something great means you will do something great. — Russell Wilson

I figured this was the easy stuff, and if we couldn't show up on time, looking right and acting right, we weren't going to be able to do anything else. — Bo Schembechler

I'm an example of why people deserve second chances. — Cam Newton

It's never been about football, but about becoming the best and fullest person I could be. And to think that I went from the kid with a GPA in the basement to going to college on a football scholarship-I was thankful and humbled by how far I'd come in just a few years. I knew that miracles really do happen. — Michael Oher

We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons. — Gale Sayers

You're kind of numb after 50 shots to the head. — Jim Harbaugh

Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there. — Victor Cruz

We are stronger together than we are alone. — Walter Payton

Well, when you're playing good football, it's good football and if you don't have good football, then you're not really playing good football. — John Madden

Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world's best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL. — Hunter S. Thompson

A lot of people didn't get to see Butler's skills throughout the course of the season. — Tom Brady

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