Browsing Topic Best Inspiring Football Quotes

You fail all the time, but you aren’t a failure until you start blaming someone else.

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they’ve had a bad day.

Don’t worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon.

There is winning and there is misery.

There’s two kinds of coaches, them that’s fired and them that’s gonna be fired.

Being stubborn is a virtue when you’re right; it’s only a character flaw when you’re wrong.

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

Success is never final, but failure can be.

You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.

If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.

I’m not really in the excuse business.

Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I’m no different.

Yep. And I noticed how slowly he went down each time, too. (When asked if he noticed how slowly Earl Campbell got up after each play.)

You don’t know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it.

I always thought I could coach. I just thought people were poor judges of good coaches.

I thought I did until I looked at some old game films. (When asked if he played college football)

Respect all. Fear none.

Coaching is not how much you know. It’s how much you can get players to do.

Yeah, that test says he’s dumb as a fence post, but when he hits he looks like Einstein to me.

That boy could throw a ball through a car wash and not get it wet. (on Warren Moon)

The harder we played, the behinder we got.

How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That’s how you win.

We have no leadership. They rule by herd. Nobody is in charge. It reminds me of a bunch of cows.

You know it’s only 50 miles but I’ve relished every moment of the longer route to get here. Thanks for letting me reflect on those great moments. Thank you.

You know it’s only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.

The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.

In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.

For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.

I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I’ve done that in my 33 years as a head coach.

Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

When you’re there, it’s not good enough to be there.

To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it.

Boom, boom, foom, poom! He just ran right at ’em!