Football Toughness Quotes & Sayings

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on. — Peter Ueberroth

You run the football for toughness. You run the ball to tell your opponent that you're as tough as they are. But you throw the ball to ring the bell. — Jerry Glanville

Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks. — Randall Jarrell

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it's digging deep, it's doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms. — Tom Brady

Things [only] exist once they are represented. — Thomas Bidegain

I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion. — Barbara Walters

There is a danger in being persuaded before one understands. — Thomas F. Wilson

Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value with which it alone is concerned, sniffs round the mass as instinctively and unerringly as a dog suspicious of some buried bone. — Henry James

Every time you see the Wal-Mart smiley face, whistling and knocking down the prices, somewhere there's a factory worker being kicked in the stomach. - Sherrie Ford — Charles Fishman

Someone had told him one day that you forget the voices of those whom you have been close to in the past very quickly. — Patrick Modiano

A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined. — Oliver Goldsmith

If you strut around like peacocks-I'm a De La Salle football player-you're going to struggle. Get that out of your heads. You have to earn that, and you earn it week to week with consistency, mental toughness, focus, the grind and the grittiness of it. I don't know if you're earning it or not. We'll find out in the game... -Coach Ladouceur — Neil Hayes