Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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.
After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.
To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate.
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.
I can't explain why a bride buys her wedding dress, whereas a groom rents his tux.
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.
Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think
Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. You’ve got to make a sincere attempt to have the right goals to begin with, then go after them with appropriate effort, and remember that you can’t really achieve anything great without the help of others.
You've got to keep yourself in prime physical condition, because fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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.
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.
Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.
It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men.
At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.
Momentum is whatever your attitude determines it to be.
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing.
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant
The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together.
The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.
Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.
I've never been with a losing team in my life, and I don't think I'll start now.
The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall.
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.
When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.
We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.
If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.
It's a better view if you're standing up than if you're laying down.
Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
There is only one kind of discipline, and that is the perfect discipline. As a leader, you must enforce and maintain that discipline; otherwise, you will fail at your job.
If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling.
To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.
To me, a leader is a visionary that energizes others. This definition of leadership has two key dimensions: a) creating the vision of the future, and b) inspiring others to make the vision a reality.
Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.
In all my years of coaching, I have never been successful using somebody else's play.
The Winner is always part of the answer.The Loser is always part of the problem.The Winner always has a program.The Loser always has an excuse.The Winner says, "Let me do it for you."The Loser says, "That's not my job."The Winner sees an answer for every problem.The Loser sees a problem for every answer.The Winner sees a green near every sand trapThe Loser sees two or three sand traps near every green.The Winner says, "It may be difficult but it's possible."The Loser says, "It might be possible but it's too difficult."Be a Winner.
When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Don't run if you can walk. Don't walk if you can stand. Don't stand if you can sit. Don't sit if you can lie down.
I'm no genius.
Character is the direct result of mental attitude. I believe that character is higher than the intellect. I believe that leadership is in sacrifice, in self-denial, in humility and in the perfectly disciplined will. This is the distinction between great and little men.
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.
No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given.
If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
I'd say handling people is the most important thing you can do as a coach. I've found every time I've gotten into trouble with a player, it's because I wasn't talking to him enough.
I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
When you travel with the team and you eat with the team - you eat what the team eats.
We run to win, not just to be in the race.
I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.
When you're tired, you rationalize. You make excuses in your mind. You say, "I'm too tired; I'm bushed; I can't do this; I'll loaf." Then you're a coward.
The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.
The best game plan in the world never blocked or tackled anybody.
There is no substitute for work.
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally.
True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!
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.
