Best Football Winning Quotes & Sayings

I'm a firm believer that if the other side scores first, you have to score twice to win. — Howard Wilkinson

Education depends on the quality of the teacher, not the site or beauty of the buildings-- nor, I might add, does it depend on the winning record of the football team, and I like football. — Anonymous

The best thing I ever learned in life was that things have to be worked for. A lot of people seem to think there is some sort of magic in making a winning football team. There isn't, but there's plenty of work. — Knute Rockne

Arsenal and Manchester United play the best football. They're not happy with one goal, they want to win by three. — Chris Coleman

We're in the top six, we've got five points and I've told the lads we need another 80 to win the League. — Joe Kinnear

I prefer that Argentina wins the World Cup. Messi deserves it for all he has done in football. He's my friend, I wish him the best — Neymar

The Seahawks defense has to go balls deep to win this game. — Jon Gruden

Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses
they tie
who cares? And why? — Edward Abbey

As you understand the game of football, you understand that it is about wins and losses. — Tyrone Willingham

It never changes. Football is a game of repetition, mental and physical. You may try to articulate it a little different, but it's the same thing: Get better players, make fewer mistakes, and drill the fundamentals into your players' heads. The rest of it is a joke. Teams aren't winning because of what they had for breakfast of what some coach said in the locker room. — Barry Switzer

I realised I'd been spoiled at Liverpool. We were used to winning. In Italy I grew up as a person. I didn't enjoy the football, mind. It was very defensive, but I became a better player because of the work I had to do around the box. Off the pitch, I learned about what to eat and what to drink to be successful, and I learned about life. — Ian Rush

If you don't score you are not going to win a match. — Bobby Robson

The coaching profession has lost one of its true legends. Though he was best known for winning more football games than any other coach when he retired, Eddie Robinson's impact on coaching and the game of football went far beyond wins and losses. He brought a small school in northern Louisiana from obscurity to nationwide, if not worldwide, acclaim and touched the lives of hundreds and hundreds of young men in his 57 years at Grambling. That will be his greatest legacy. — Grant Teaff

If someone gave the Russians a football, they'd win the Super Bowl in two years. — Frank Mahovlich

I'm very honest and I know where I am. If you look at the table and the games we have got left to win, we need a miracle. — Gus Poyet

We have got a problem winning games in the league. We have to educate ourselves and maybe we have to not play the lovely football that we have been. — Kenny Dalglish

My name is not only Archie Griffin, it's two-time Heisman trophy winner Archie Griffin. Once you win the award it's with you for the rest of your life, and I realize that and I'm proud of that. It changed my life. — Archie Griffin

We didn't win a Super Bowl together, and that's something I'll always regret - not knowing what that feels like. But you and I have won more games together than any quarterback and coach combination in the history of the NFL. — Dan Marino

A win would be better than a draw. — Denis Law

If you said, 'What is the most important aspect of winning football games?' I don't think I could give you an answer to that question. — Cris Collinsworth

I have always had this necessity to win. When I played with my friends on the street, football or running, I always wanted to be the best, — Jorge Lorenzo

Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points. — Theodore Dreiser

If you are not a part of the solution then you must be part of the problem. I am done with problems here! — George M. Gilbert

Four wins in four matches. It could not be better ... the world is fantastic. — Jose Mourinho

The third year at a school for any head coach is the most important year for the program they are attempting to develop. — George M. Gilbert

Systems don't win, players do. — Marv Levy

Who will win the League? It's a toss of a coin between three of them. — Matthew Le Tissier

As of today, you do anything that I feel is disrespecting our program in any way, you are gone! From this day forward, everyone will be at practice in uniform as we will either build this program into something or we will destroy it! — George M. Gilbert

Not to win is guttering. — Mark Noble

Football is a direct reflection of life. There are wins, there are losses; you get knocked down, you get back up. — Chris Spielman

When you think of me as a football player, I would like for people to think that I put it on the line every time. Good or bad, win or lose, I put it on the line. — Joe Greene

I'm not satisfied. I'm still enjoying this. I still feel like I'm in the best part of my career and I can play at a high level. This is what I love to do: playing football and winning games. — Eli Manning

Winning would create greater potential for change than talk alone. — Tony Dungy

The wins and losses are over for Rice, the football player, who leaves with 38 NFL records. He was the easiest guy in the world to throw the football to, ... You always knew where he was headed. — Steve Young

What it takes to win is simple, it's not easy. — Marv Levy

My favorite football memory isn't beating Florida or winning the bowl game ... My favorite memories are of playing football with my brothers and my dad in the front yard when I was younger. — Eli Manning

I've got news for you. We're gonna win the game. I guarantee it. — Joe Namath

we first need to get boys out for football and then the plan will gradually come into play — George M. Gilbert

We have three kinds of guys on our team. We have guys that get it; they play good; they understand how to play winning football. We have some guys that are trying to get it, and they are working hard every day? We are supporting them, and we want the guys that have it to support them. Then we have some guys that don't get it and don't know that they don't get it. We are trying to replace them. We only have a couple left. — Nick Saban

Liverpool can play for only five minutes and win the game, that is the way they are. They pump the ball into the box and with good set-piece delivery they keep you under pressure. — Alex Ferguson

This is truly a rags to riches story which doesn't happen often, but it does happen. Hope is offered to those who face similar challenges that in this great Country dreams can be realized when work ethic and passion lead the way. — George M. Gilbert

I have never asked to be the highest-paid coach in football. I have never asked to be paid like a Super Bowl-winning coach. I have never asked for more power. — Jim Harbaugh