50 Football Quotes For Game Day Inspiration

In the South we have four seasons: spring, summer, winter, and football. It’s no secret that Southern folks love their football. As soon the weather starts to cool, we break out our team jerseys, game day recipes, and prepare for Saturday kick-off. Whether your mantra is Hotty Toddy, Geaux Tigers, or Roll Tide, you’re bound to enjoy these inspirational football quotes.

Football Quotes On Leadership

• “Every day is an opportunity disguised as a challenge.” – Tiki Barber
• “Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence. If you’re in control, they’re in control.” –Tom Landry
• “You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That’s the mark of a true professional.” –Joe Paterno
• “Football is like life. It requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication, and respect for authority.” – Vince Lombardi
• “Success isn’t owned, it’s leased. And rent is due every day.” – J.J. Watt
• “The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.” – Vince Lombardi
• “The most valuable player is the one who makes the most players valuable.” – Peyton Manning
• “You can’t win together if you don’t work together.” – Nick Saban
• “To the young: work, work, work, and then work some more.” – Ed Reed

Football Quotes On Discipline

• “Good things come to those who work!” – Greg Dortch
• “Success isn’t measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.” –Mike Ditka
• “The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” –Vince Lombardi
• “It’s not the will to win that matters. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.” – Paul “Bear” Bryant
• “I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved.” –Urban Meyer
• “You cannot make progress with excuses.” – Cam Newton
• “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
• “Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.” – Jerry Rice
• “Remember, once you set a goal, it’s all about how hard you’re willing to work, how much you’re willing to sacrifice and how badly you truly want it.” – J.J. Watt
• “Embrace the new, no matter how uncomfortable, and make it work for you.” – Alex Smith
• “Football is a game of controlled anger. It is a game of retribution. It’s about will.” – Brian Dawkins

Football Quotes On Giving Your Best

• “Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.” –George S. Halas
• “No one ever drowned in sweat.” –Lou Holtz
• “No matter the circumstances you may be going through, just push through it.” – Ray Lewis
• “Winners never quit and quitters never win.” – Vince Lombardi
• “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size in the fight of the dog.” – Archie Griffin
• “When you’ve got something to prove, there’s nothing greater than a challenge.” –Terry Bradshaw
• “There is only one way to succeed in anything…and that is to give it everything.” –Vince Lombardi
• “If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.” – Lou Holtz
• “When people told me I wasn’t going to make it, I listened to the one person who told me I was: me.” – Shannon Sharpe
• “Effort will never be questioned.” – Jalen Hurts
• “If you work hard and you play well, all those critics quiet themselves pretty quickly.” – Peyton Manning
• “If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great.” – J.J. Watt
• “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

Football Quotes On Staying Humble

• “When you lose, talk little. When you win, talk less.” – Tom Brady
• “Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” –Lou Holtz
• “Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.” –John Madden
• “You can learn a line from a win and a book from defeat.” – Paul Brown
• “When you’re good at something, you’ll tell everyone. When you’re great at something, they’ll tell you.” – Walter Payton
• “Winning isn’t getting ahead of others. It’s getting ahead of yourself.” – Roger Staubach
• “Do you want to know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.” – Mike Singletary
• “Stay hungry, remain humble, and get better today.” – Pete Carroll

Football Quotes On Not Giving Up

• “Trust that you can get back up and not give in. Ever.” – Patrick Willis
• “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get back up.” –Vince Lombardi
• “When you don’t give up, you cannot fail.” –Adrian Peterson
• “I may win and I may lose, but I will never be defeated.” –Emmitt Smith
• “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” – Bo Jackson
• “To do things you’ve never done before, you have to do things you’ve never done before.” – Sean Payton
• “When you’re good at something, you’ll tell everyone. When you’re great at something, they’ll tell you.” – Walter Payton
• “A champion is simply someone who did not give up when they wanted to.”–Tom Landry
• “I am going to outwork everybody because no one was going to give me anything.” – Dawson Knox
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• “When you don’t give up, you cannot fail.” – Adrian Peterson
• “It doesn’t matter what people say about me. I weather the storm.” – Terrell Owens
• “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” – Lou Holtz