Give role players love. Praise can be most valuable when it’s merited by someone whose supporting role is often overlooked.
Any penalty – I’ve told you a hundred times – can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.
Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that!
You can’t dream up confidence. Confidence is born of demonstrated ability.
I’m not really in the excuse business.
There is winning and there is misery.
No matter how much you’ve won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you’re not winning now, so you stink.
If you have fun, fine. It’s not all life and death.
The time to worry is before you place the bet – not after the wheel is spinning. Once it spins, you forget about it.
The quarterback is in charge of the chuck wagon. He’s handing it out here and there, but he can’t just throw it out there indiscriminately or the wolves will get him.
I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.
Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.
My expectations are greater than the average fan’s but, I’m more realistic than the top prognosticators.
All you have to do is play better than the other guy and things go well. If you don’t play better than the other players then somebody takes your place. Now a lot of guys, in this day and time with the transient nature of the sport, as soon as the competition gets too good, they want out.
I like linebackers. I collect ’em. You can’t have too many good ones.
Never let the world define you as less than Great.
Success is never final, but failure can be.
I only want my team to play to its potential, as I perceive it to be. I really don’t have any regard for anyone else’s perception.
Look, when you are starting to put something together, you want the pudding to come out good. You’re trying to put in the right ingredients.
When you don’t know that you don’t know, it’s a lot different than when you do know that you don’t know.