Sayings in sports often apply in life.
Once upon a time, baseball–not football–had the corner business when it came to sayings that migrated into the English language, sayings like, “Three strikes and you’re out!”
Today, football (not baseball) is America’s game. So let’s take a look at a fifteen football sayings that apply well beyond football.
- “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.” – Archie Griffin, Cincinnati Bengals
- “When you’re good at something, you’ll tell everyone. When you’re great at something, they’ll tell you.”- Walter Payton, Chicago Bears
- “Winning is not everything–it’s the only thing.”- Vince Lombardi, Green Bay Packers
- “If it doesn’t matter who WINS or loses, then why do they keep score?” – Vince Lombardi
- “Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.” – Lou Holtz
- “If you want to win, then do the ordinary things better than anyone else does.”- Chuck Noll, Pittsburgh Steelers
- “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” – Lou Holtz
- “If you’re not in the parade, you watch the parade. That’s life.”- Mike Ditka, Chicago Bears
- “The only discipline that lasts, is self-discipline”- Bum Phillips
- “Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t” – Jerry Rice, San Francisco 49ers
- “How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great.” – Bum Phillips
- “For every pass that I caught in a game, I caught a thousand times in practice.”- Don Hutson, Green Bay Packers
- “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.”- Peyton Manning, Denver Broncos
- “Winning isn’t getting ahead of others. It’s getting ahead of yourself.”- Roger Staubach, Dallas Cowboys
- “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.”- Vince Lombardi
