Football Coach Quotes

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

Everyone wants to win on Saturday afternoon when the game is played. It’s what you do the other six days that decides the outcome

We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.

The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life.

In this world you're either growing or you're dying so get in motion and grow.

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach. Why was something successful? What makes it work? I just try to use my expertise and whatever insight I have to the game.

Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.

Hard work is the price we must pay for success

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.

A disciplined person is the one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.

Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.

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.

I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.

I've never seen the yellow light, umm the yellow line be wrong.

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.

I'm so old, I don't buy green bananas any more.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times.

I don't exercise.

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

If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.

Coaching is about helping young people have a chanceto succeed. There is no more awesome responsibilitythan that. One of the greatest honors a person can haveis being called 'Coach.'

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.

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.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

I don't necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

[Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Ann Landers It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

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.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them.

The successful man is himself. To be successful, you've got to be honest with yourself.

Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter; and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution and determination.

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.

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

How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?

Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

They may not love you at the time, but they will later.

If you want to get a deal, negotiate with the teams yourself. Say, "I want this much, and no less, but I'll show up to camp on time." It doesn't seem that hard to me.

You defeat defeatism with confidence.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Before I can embrace freedom, I should be aware of what duties I have.

If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.

We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won't ever be perfect - but in the process we will achieve greatness.

It is and has always been an American zeal to be first in everything we do, and to win.

Underconfidence breeds underachievement.

We are not going to win because you have a new head coach, any more than you are going to fix a flat tire by changing the driver. We will win the minute all of us get rid of excuses as to why we can't win and stop wallowing in self-pity.

Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.

Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?

I don't think we can win every game. Just the next one.