"A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall."

Lombardi, Vince | Football | 3 bookmarks

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

Lombardi, Vince | Football | 6 bookmarks

"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society."

Lombardi, Vince | Cooperation | 3 bookmarks

"If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time."

Tarkenton, Fran | Competition | 1 bookmarks

"If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games."

Bryant, Bear | Praise | 1 bookmarks

"Every time a football player goes to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up -- from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's OK You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second."

Lombardi, Vince | Football | 1 bookmarks

"There is a progression of understanding vis-?-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its national pastime pedestal in less than fifteen years."

Thompson, Hunter S. | Football | 1 bookmarks