quotes by Football Coach Quotes

“The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”

“No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.”

“You must have dreams and goals if you are ever going to achieve anything in this world.”

“To be successful, a man must exert an effective influence upon his brothers and upon his associates, and the degree in which he accomplishes this depends on the personality of the man. The incandescence of which he is capable. The flame of fire that burns inside of him. The magnetism which draws the heart of other men to him.”

“After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.”

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

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

“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.”

“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?”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“No one has ever drowned in sweat.”

“Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.”

“You will never be indecisive if you know your purpose.”

“Leadership rests not only on outstanding ability. It also rests on commitment, loyalty and pride. It rests on followers who are ready to accept guidance. Leadership is the ability to direct people and - more important - to have those people accept that direction.”

“Hard work is the price we must pay for success”

“All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I've never been with a losing team in my life, and I don't think I'll start now.”

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

“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.”

“The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.”

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

“The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there.”

“If you get into the endzone, act as if you've been there before.”

“Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.”

“Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all of the needed talents that go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.”

“Gentlemen, this is the football.”

“People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.”

“What's important now? - To evaluate the past, focus on the future, and tell you what you have to do in the present”

“Remember that adversity presents us with numerous possibilities for success, if we are just willing to see them.”

“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.”

“We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.”

“Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.”

“If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.”

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

“Everything ends badly, otherwise it would not end.”

“No, but you can see it from here.”

“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.”

“It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.”

“It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant”

“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.”

“Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.”