Football Coach Quotes

“If you really want something , you can have it if you're willing to pay the price. And the price means you have to work better and harder than the next guy.”

“Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.”

“Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.”

“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.”

“When you are through trying to improve, you are through.”

“We win our games in practice. We learn and follow the fundamentals of our game better than anyone in the league. All of our games are won in practice.”

“You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up - and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.”

“Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.”

“If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.”

“Brains without competitive hearts are rudderless.”

“To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price”

“Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.”

“Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.”

“Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.”

“They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons.”

“While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.”

“I think you've got to pay the price for anything that's worthwhile, and success is paying the price. You've got to pay the price to win, you've got to pay the price to stay on top, and you 've got to pay the price to get there.”

“Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.”

“Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it.”

“Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”

“Most important of all, to be successful in life demands that a man make a personal commitment to excellence and to victory, even though the ultimate victory can never be completely won. Yet that victory might be pursued and wooed with every fiber of our body, with every bit of our might and all our effort. And each week, there is a new encounter; each day, there is a new challenge.”

“Every time a player goes out to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be Number One in any business. But more important, you've got to play with you heart - with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.”

“Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It's something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.”

“Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.”

“I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.”