Inspirational Best Football Quotes: Fuel Your Passion and Drive

"Winners never quit and quitters never win."

- Vince Lombardi

"You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it."

- Lionel Messi

"Winning is not everything ... but making the effort to win is."

- Vince Lombardi

"Football, like life, is filled with ups and downs, and the most important thing is to keep moving forward and never give up."

- Diego Maradona

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up."

- Vince Lombardi

"Football is like life. It requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication, and respect for authority."

- Vince Lombardi

"A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done."

- Vince Lombardi

"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit."

- Vince Lombardi

"Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't."

- Jerry Rice

"The most valuable player is the one who makes the most players valuable."

- Peyton Manning

"Success isn’t owned, it’s leased. And rent is due every day."

- J. J. Watt

"I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying."

- Michael Jordan

"Don't count the days, make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"I may win and I may lose, but I will never be defeated."

- Emmitt Smith

"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."

- Muhammad Ali

"Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live."

- Joe Montana

"You can’t win together if you don’t work together."

- Joe Paterno

"Football is a game of controlled anger. It is a game of retribution. It’s about will."

- Brian Dawkins

"If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great."

- J.J. Watt

"Stay hungry, remain humble, and get better today."

- Pete Carroll

"You cannot make progress with excuses."

- Cam Newton

"It's not the will to win that matters. It's the will to prepare to win that matters."

- Paul "Bear" Bryant

"No matter the circumstances you may be going through, just push through it."

- Ray Lewis

"Winning isn’t getting ahead of others. It’s getting ahead of yourself."

- Roger Staubach

"When you don’t give up, you cannot fail."

- Adrian Peterson

"Trust that you can get back up and not give in. Ever."

- Patrick Willis

"To the young: work, work, work, and then work some more."

- Ed Reed

"Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

- Lou Holtz

"Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it."

- George S. Halas

"You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That’s the mark of a true professional."

- Joe Paterno

"When you’ve got something to prove, there’s nothing greater than a challenge."

- Terry Bradshaw

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vince Lombardi

"It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size in the fight of the dog."

- Archie Griffin

"Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence. If you're in control, they're in control."

- Tom Landry

"The greatest game you can win is won within."

- Lou Holtz

"If you're not playing with passion, then you're not playing football."

- Thierry Henry

"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

- T.S. Eliot

"No one ever drowned in sweat."

- Lou Holtz

"If you work hard and you play well, all those critics quiet themselves pretty quickly."

- Peyton Manning

"You can learn a line from a win and a book from defeat."

- Paul Brown

"Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble."

- John Madden

"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it."

- Charles Swindoll

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

- Lou Holtz

"A champion is simply someone who did not give up when they wanted to."

- Tom Landry

"Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins."

- Johan Cruyff

"Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there."

- Gale Sayers

"Every experience, good or bad, you have to learn from."

- Patrick Mahomes

"You fail all the time. But you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else."

- Bum Phillips

"If your dream ain't bigger than you, there's a problem with your dream."

- Deion Sanders

"The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning."

- Pele

"For every pass I caught in a game, I caught a thousand in practice."

- Don Hutson

"Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line."

- Ray Lewis

"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender."

- Marv Levy

"I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down, and I will not let myself down."

- Tim Howard

"The aphorism, 'As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he,' not only embraces the whole of a man's being, but is so comprehensive as to reach out to every condition and circumstance of his life. A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts."

- James Allen

"We few, we happy few, we Band of Brothers; for he who stays and sheds his blood with me today, shall be my brother."

- William Shakespeare

"He who has no guts to fight may leave, but we who stay and fight shall grow stronger. We few, we happy few, we Band of Brothers. For he who stays and sheds his blood with me today shall be my brother."

- Henry V

"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his sould and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even"

- Muhammad Ali

"I hated every minute of training, but I said 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

- Muhammad Ali

"All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means...you're willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else."

- Vince Lombardi

"It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required."

- Winston Churchill

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defens our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."

- Winston Churchill

"If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat."

- Tony Dorsett

"It's like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired."

- Robert Strauss

"People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get."

- Frederick Douglass

"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;"

- William Shakespeare

"Good is the enemy of great"

- Collins

"The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently but the courage to live like a man."

- Thomas Carlyle

"Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated."

- Lou Holtz

"Effort will never be questioned."

- Jalen Hurts

"...to set the cause above renown, to love the game beyond the prize. To honor, while you strike him down, the foe that comes with fearless eyes. To count the life of battle good and dear the land that gave you birth, and dearer yet, the brotherhood that binds the brave of all the Earth."

- Sir Henry Newbolt

"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where you enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on."

- Ulysses S. Grant

"History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today."

- Henry Ford

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"You learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life."

- Paul Dietzel

"Do you want to know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play."

- Mike Singletary

"If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it."

- Brendan Francis

"When you lose, talk little. When you win, talk less."

- Tom Brady

"When you get off that bus you've got to be prepared to someone in the mouth....the more teeth that fall the better. They have to know that if they choose to stick around it's going to be a long 60 minutes."

- Jack Lambert

"You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a 2x4."

- Dan Birdwell

"If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others."

- Tryon Edwards

"Always remember..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David."

- Shug Jordan

"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it."

- Lou Holtz

"There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you."

- Woody Hayes

"I would have you day by day, fix your eyes upon the greatness of your country (in this case, your football program); until you become filled with love of her; and when you are impressed by the spectacle of her glory reflect that it was acquired by men who knew their duty and had the courage to do it"

- Pericles

"End practice on a Happy Note."

- John Wooden

"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one becomes a master."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps twice."

- St. Jerome

"Rather let us have men whose manhood is only a continuation of their boyhood; natural characters still - such that are able and fertile for heroic action; and not that sad spectacle with which we are too familiar, educated eyes in uneducated bodies."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win some noble renown."

- Plato

"I am not a dreamer. I am a football romantic."

- Jürgen Klopp

"Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that."

- Bill Shankly

"Its an old story, but the glory of it is forever."

- Virgil

"Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football"

- John Heisman

"Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died."

- Frank Leahy

"The Great aim of Education is not Knowledge, but Action."

- Herbert Spencer

"I've found that prayers work best when you have big players."

- Knute Rockne

"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

"Football is not a contact sport-it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport."

- Duffy Daugherty

"I threw a ball into the air. It hit the ground. I knew not where. And that is why I sit and dream On the bench, with the second team!"

- Red Faught

"We didn't tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking."

- John McKay

"Three things can happen when you pass the ball, and two of them are bad."

- Woody Hayes

"Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in bad humor."

- Bowden Wyatt

"I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades."

- Duffy Daugherty

"At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any"

- Erik Russell

"Dance with the one who brung ya."

- Darrell Royal

"I had a lifetime contract, but the administration declared me dead."

- Frank Howard

"The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb."

- Knute Rockne

"Say your prayers, you sonofabittcch!"

- Rooster

"I'm in favor of it."

- John McKay

"I am hurt, but I am not slain; I’le lay me downe and bleed a-while, And then I’le rise and fight again."

"Think big, believe big, be big, and the end result will be BIG."

"If that guy gets pass you I will cut your body in half with the edge of a coin. It can be done. I saw it on CSI:NY"