Most football teams are temperamental. That's 90% temper and 10% mental.
-Doug Plank

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
- Vince Lombardi

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
- Gale Sayers

When in doubt, punt!
- John Heisman

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.
- John Madden

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
- Archie Griffen

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
- Duffy Daugherty

Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.
- Heywood Hale Broun

Speed, strength, and the inability to register pain immediately.
-Reggie Williams, when asked his greatest strengths as a football player

In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.
-Theodore Roosevelt

“Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.” – Tom Landry

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity. --Unknown

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. -- Vince Lombardi

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score? -- Vince Lombardi

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will. -- Vince Lombardi

“Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.” – Tom Landry

Chad Bratzke , explaining life in the NFL: "The pads don't keep you from getting hurt. They just keep you from getting killed.

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. – Vince Lombardi

If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his jacket on. -- Lou Holtz, College football coach

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

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

"What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence." -- Terry Bradshaw

"You don't have to win it, just don't lose it." -- Ray Lewis, Baltimore linebacker to quarterback, Elvis Grbac

"Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan. " -- Tom Landry

"I just wrap my arms around the whole backfield and peel 'em one by one until I get to the ball carrier. Him I keep." -- Big Daddy Lipscomb, former NFL defensive tackle on his tackling technique

"Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football." -- John Heisman

“First, I prepare. Then I have faith. When you win, nothing hurts.” - Joe Namath

“To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.” -- Joe Namath

“Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.” Joe Namath

“Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up” -- Knute Rockne

“One man practicing sportsmanship is better than a hundred teaching it.” -- Knute Rockne

“It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.” -- Knute Rockne

“Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.” -- Knute Rockne

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Saint Augustine

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
Saint Augustine

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
Saint Augustine

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
Saint Augustine

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
Akhenaton

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes