Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

Football is one of the most popular sports in the country, and there are many reasons for this. You can take so much from football and apply it to life in general. Just some of those things are goal-setting, preparation, teamwork, perseverance and discipline.

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do, in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be.

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

When we're doing everything we can to win, it's very fun.

I just concentrate on my performance and the football.

What motivates me is being the best quarterback in the world.

I want to be the guy in the red-zone, believe me.

As a footballer, you always want to win.

I believe that football can inspire youngsters to find the path of success in life.

Don't let winning make you soft. Don't let losing make you quit. Don't let your teammates down in any situation.

Willpower is that thing CEOs and professional athletes tell us they used to make it to the top.

What are you doing here? Tell me why you are here. If you are not here to win a national championship, you're in the wrong place. You boys are special. I don't want my players to be like other students. I want special people. You can learn a lot on the football field that isn't taught in the home, the church, or the classroom. There are going to be days when you think you've got no more to give and then you're going to give plenty more. You are going to have pride and class. You are going to be very special. You are going to win the national championship for Alabama.

I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, "Oh, well, there's another Saturday." The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

During the off-season when you see other people playing in the Super Bowl, you wonder, and you say to yourself, 'Are you ever gonna get there and see what it feels like?' And it pushes you a little bit harder during that off-season to work to try to get there the following year.

I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game.

One thing I always tell people. If you want to be gold medalist, you partner one.

Sport is not just about entertainment. It is equally about winning and losing, pooling and galvanising the energy of the youth, upgrading people's physical fitness and mental prowess.

I still have the competitive spirit, which is good.

We didn't think we were a fourth-place team. For us to beat the first-place team in the West and the first-place team in the East shows the dedication and determination that we had.

Win one for the Gipper.