Football is like life. It requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication, and respect for authority.
Joe Paterno
If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
Ayrton Senna
It's not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.
Bobby Knight
In football, the ball is always the best mirror.
Johan Cruyff
Football is not about one or two or three star players. It's about 11 guys accepting responsibility.
Marcelo Bielsa
Every disadvantage has its advantage.
The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.
Mia Hamm
Football is a simple game. But sometimes, making simple things is the hardest thing.
You can't make a great play unless you do it first in practice.
I am not a dictator. I am a coach. The player should understand that I am helping him win.
Arsene Wenger
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
Phil Jackson
Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.
The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
Vince Lombardi
Football is a game played with the brain. You have to be in the right place at the right time, not too early, not too late.
Football is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
Pele
In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball.