Quotes by Football Coaches - Page 2

You can't always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response. Your options are to complain or to look ahead and figure out how to make the situation better.
Tony Dungy
As cruel as life might be at times, if you throw in the towel, which is what everyone will expect, then nothing good will happen and your life will fall apart. Be better than that!
Bill Courtney
The one surefire way to get me not to hire you is to send me your resume, especially if you've already got a good job. I won't be interested, because in a couple years, you'll be doing the same thing to me that you're doing to your current boss: looking for a better deal.
Bo Schembechler
How did you act when all was not good? Did you rise to the challenge? Did you display grit, resilience, and integrity in your response? Character isn't about being perfect or always doing the right thing. Character is how you respond to your own failures. It’s when you screw up and life hits you in the mouth that you have an opportunity to reveal your inner strength.
Bill Courtney
You can’t be a successful leader or mentor until you have served. You can’t serve until you have stepped out of your comfort zone. And you can’t step out of your comfort zone unless you have character and keep your word.
Bill Courtney
The true measure of a person’s character is how one handles one’s failures, not successes.
Bill Courtney
Coaching doesn’t start with X’s and O’s. It starts with believing that players win games and coaches win players.
Bill Courtney
Nothing profound ever happens in your life when you remain in your comfort zone.
Bill Courtney
It is never too late to show true character.
Bill Courtney
There is one possession that can never be taken away as long as you will not allow it to be taken, and that is your word.
Bill Courtney
Approach each new day as a new opportunity to be the person you aspire to be.
Bill Courtney
We have the ability to survive anything.
Bill Courtney
No matter how many good deeds we preform, they aren’t the ticket to earning God’s favor. God graces us in spite of what we do in this life, not because of.
Bill Courtney
Grace is not something one possesses; instead, grace is something one receives.
Bill Courtney
A true legacy is established over a lifetime and relates to what a human being does for others, not for himself.
Bill Courtney
If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.
Lou Holtz
Every great thing that has been accomplished, and is yet to be accomplished, starts with a dream.
Bill Courtney
Many men beg for a job but have no clue what hard work really means.
Bill Courtney
If you define yourself by the title of coach or boss, you’ll never earn real trust from your players or employees.
Bill Courtney
I needed to do my current job well, keep preparing, and wait on God’s timing. I needed to trust His leadership rather than try to force an outcome I wanted.
Tony Dungy
I love coaching football, and winning a Super Bowl was a goal I’ve had for a long time. But it has never been my purpose in life. My purpose in life is simply to glorify God. We have to be careful that we don’t let the pursuit of our life’s goals, no matter how important they seem, cause us to lose sight of our purpose. I coach football. But the good I can do to glorify God along the way is my real purpose.
Tony Dungy
I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
Lou Holtz
You are more in control of your destiny than you have ever imagined.
Bill Courtney
Don’t believe in the fate society chose for you. Instead, carve out a new fate for yourself.
Bill Courtney
In our community, we have a duty to strengthen the weakest among us to build a better society.
Bill Courtney
Only by entering new and unfamiliar worlds can a person change society as well as self.
Bill Courtney
Internal character: how you behave when no one is watching.
Bill Courtney
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Jimmy Johnson
Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving. Jesus said, “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).
Tony Dungy
You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.
Homer Rice
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz
Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz
You got one guy going boom, one guy going whack, and one guy not getting in the endzone.
John Madden
You got one guy going boom, one guy going whack, and one guy not getting in the endzone.
John Madden
It's okay to wander.
Tony Dungy
MY FIVE DOS FOR GETTING BACK INTO THE GAME: 1. Do expect defeat. It’s a given when the stakes are high and the competition is working ferociously to beat you. If you’re surprised when it happens, you’re dreaming; dreamers don’t last long. 2. Do force yourself to stop looking backward and dwelling on the professional “train wreck” you have just been in. It’s mental quicksand. 3. Do allow yourself appropriate recovery—grieving—time. You’ve been knocked senseless; give yourself a little time to recuperate. A keyword here is “little.” Don’t let it drag on. 4. Do tell yourself, “I am going to stand and fight again,” with the knowledge that often when things are at their worst you’re closer than you can imagine to success. Our Super Bowl victory arrived less than sixteen months after my “train wreck” in Miami. 5. Do begin planning for your next serious encounter. The smallest steps—plans—move you forward on the road to recovery. Focus on the fix. MY FIVE DON’TS: 1. Don’t ask, “Why me?” 2. Don’t expect sympathy. 3. Don’t bellyache. 4. Don’t keep accepting condolences. 5. Don’t blame others.
Bill Walsh
Morale and attitude are fundamentals to success.
Bud Wilkinson
There are many people, particularly in sports, who think that success and excellence are the same thing. They are not the same thing. Excellence is something that is lasting and dependable and largely within a person's control. In contrast, success is perishable and is often outside our control. If you strive for excellence, you will probably be successful eventually. People who put excellence in the first place have the patience to end up with success. An additional burden for the victim of the success mentality is that he is threatened by the success of others and he resents real excellence. In contrast, the person that is fascinated by quality is excited when he sees it in others.
Joe Paterno
You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
Lou Holtz
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Lou Holtz
You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
Lou Holtz
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
Lou Holtz
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vince Lombardi
I have yet to hear God's audible voice, although I have often felt led by God in more subtle ways.
Tony Dungy
Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
Lou Holtz