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If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.
John Madden
Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.
The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.
Every team is beatable, you know.
Tom Coughlin
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
When you win, nothing hurts.
We're going to win Sunday. I guarantee it.
Some people think football is a matter of life and death...I can assure them it is much more serious than that.
Bill Shankley, 'The Sunday Times
If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then beyond the other, no one's happiness would be increased
Bertrand Russell
Few people get to earn a living at what they like to do and there are hazards in any profession. Football is something I was made for. I gave the game all I could for as long as I could. I guess my only regret was that my career was too short.
Dick Butkus
I worked hard at becoming a professional football player, just like society says you should. It said you had to be fierce. I was fierce. Tough. I was tough.
I want to be recognized as the best-no doubt about it. When they say all-pro middle linebacker, I want them to mean Butkus!
Reporters used to be blue-collar at the Globe now, it's practically required that you have a trust fund.
Howie Carr
What most people don't know is all the good things that the coach did without anybody knowing. For instance, he would grab up a couple of us players and go to the burn unit at Children's Hospital. He was always doing things like that and didn't want any publicity about it.
Archie Griffin, (remembering coa
NFL owners should quit worrying about silly things like players celebrating in the end zone. They should give them something to really celebrate. Get rid of the artificial surfaces.
O. J. Simpson
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Lou Holtz
When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.
Duffy Daugherty
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Joe Paterno
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
The more I heard that I couldn't make it, the more I was determined to do it. I never liked being told that I'm not good enough to do this or that.
Archie Griffin, The Archie Griff
