The rest of the world is populated by pansy tards. Football is the reason we dominate the world. You can easily see the cause/effect relationship if you compare football’s popularity with our influence in the world.
Football teaches our boys to be men. It prepares them for the more important battles they will face someday. You’ll never see a damn pee-wee football league not keeping score so everyone feels like a winner. Football is step one in having the strongest military in the history of the world.
No other sport requires such an extensive amount of planning. No other sport is unable to be dominated by individual athletes. Football DEMANDS teamwork to win.
A few readings from the Book of Lombardi, all praise to him–[quote]
A game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.
I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
Vince Lombardi
If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?
If you can accept losing you can’t win. If you can walk you can run. No one is ever hurt. Hurt is in your mind.
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.
Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.
Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser.
Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn’t do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.
[/quote]
Bud Wilkinson:
If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.
Dan Birdwell:
You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four
Knute Rockne:
Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.
Dick Butkus:
When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something
John Steinbeck:
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
Ted Solotaroff:
A professional football team warms up grimly and disparately, like an army on maneuvers: the ground troops here, the tanks there, the artillery and air force over there.
Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it. ~Heywood Hale Brown
Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors. ~Frank Gifford
At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact. ~George Plimpton
Football is not a contact sport. It’s a collision sport. Dancing is a… contact sport. ~Duffy Daugherty
There are several differences between a football game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also, there are usually more casualties in a football game. The object of the game is to move a ball past the other team’s goal line. This counts as six points. No points are given for lacerations, contusions, or abrasions, but then no points are deducted, either. Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally. ~Alfred Hitchcock
BRANDON HEFFERNAN:
Football is a game in which the team concept is paramount, and individual players are mere cogs in a machine programmed specifically for its current opponent. It’s a game of brute force and strategic finesse, one-on-one battles and overarching tactical concepts. In a country whose oldest motto is “don’t tread on me,” football is the most popular sport not because it’s a metaphor for war and land acquisition, but because it’s the metaphor for war and land acquisition. And no, this doesn’t mean you have to be into war to be into football. It was Alan Ginsberg, of all people, who said that he watches “for the display of the human form divine.” There’s something for everyone in this great game.
Those who dislike or are indifferent to football tend to incorrectly assume it’s a game of brawn, a game of muscled thugs imparting structured violence on other muscled thugs. Fans of the game know better. We know it’s a game of brains, and it uses strength, speed, and the element of surprise to carry out its commands.
Some random blog:
Football is, rather explicitly, a reduction of first- and second- generation war tactics, with all the quasi-nationalist trappings, both with the teams and with the overt nationalism before each and every game. Formations, set plays and techniques and positions – that’s first- and second-generation warfare there. The fans, the colors, the symbols, all of it – it’s war without the blood. That’s fine; our lizard brains still need that from time to time.