Remember this. Bear Bryant retired at age 69, and he died 28 days after he stopped coaching. If you don't have something, and a purpose in your life, you're gonna die.
When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.
We will use some kind of option and we will throw the football. I hope it will be at our people.
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
You've got to have great athletes to win, I don't care who the coach is. You can't win without good athletes but you can lose with them. This is where coaching makes the difference.
Do what's right! Do the best you can and treat others the way you want to be treated because they will ask three questions: (1) Can I trust you? (2) Are you committed? (3) Do you care about me as a person?
How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.
If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that's for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn't play golf.
If you make a fist and hold it for two hours, you won't be able to pick up a glass because you'll be so weak. Let's stay loose. Let's have fun.
The price of LEADERSHIP is RESPONSIBILITY....and part of that responsibility is to STAY POSITIVE whether you feel like it or not.
When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.
I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them.
Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.
If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.
The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.
In football, it's the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.
In life, be a participant, not a spectator.
If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.
Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It's the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.
We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.
My wife doesn't even want to spend 2 hours with me.
I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
I can't explain why a bride buys her wedding dress, whereas a groom rents his tux.
Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.
My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.
Underconfidence breeds underachievement.
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.
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.
Actually, all I ever wanted to be was the best in my field.
Never settle for second when first is available
So many times people are afraid of competition, when it should bring out the best in us. We all have talents and abilities, so why be intimidated by other people's skills?
I don't think we can win every game. Just the next one.
If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.
You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.
Only the unprepared are overcome by pressure
It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant
The team that's on defense first (in overtime) has the advantage because they know whether they need a touchdown a field goal or just a score.
Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the ship in.
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.
What you are capable of achieving is determined by your talent and ability. What you attempt to do is determined by your motivation. How well you do something is determined by your attitude.
Attitude determines how well you do it.
I've never seen the yellow light, umm the yellow line be wrong.
The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.
In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.
I just have an enthusiasm for life.
Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
I don't play well enough to be allowed to throw my clubs.
Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.
Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from 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.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.
The only people who aren't going to be criticized are those who do absolutely nothing
Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.
To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.
