If the topic is about winning and success, who is more exposed to it than a football player, coach, or manager of a football team who are massively pressed to perform in public, often on a weekly basis?
Of course, there is no question that winning and getting ahead of the competition is of uttermost importance not only in football (in whichever format) but also in business and personal life.
We have collected 50 outstanding quotes by football players, coaches, and managers over the last 100 years documenting the psychology of team success and winning.
The quotations are sorted in chronological order. Enjoy them and find inspiration and motivation to persist and also become a winner.
Find out
what the other team
wants to do.
Then take it away
from them.
George Halas
and pioneer in professional American football)
Win or lose,
do it fairly.
Knute Rockne
The key to winning
is poise under stress.
Paul Brown
Winning isn’t everything.
There should be
no conceit
in victory
and no despair
in defeat.
Sir Alexander Matthew “Matt” Busby
Winners never quit
and quitters never win.
Vince Lombardi
I want to build a team
that’s invincible,
so that they have to send
a team from bloody Mars
to beat us.
Bill Shankly
It’s not the will that matters
– everyone has that.
It’s the will
to prepare to win.
Paul William “Bear” Bryant
It is better
to fail aiming high
than to succeed
aiming low.
William Edward “Bill” Nicholson
Never change
a winning team.
Sir Alfred Ernest “Alf” Ramsey
manager of the English national football team)
If ya dinnea score
ya dinnea win.
James “Jimmy” Sirrel
