To be successful, all you have to do is work half-days; you can work the first twelve hours or the second twelve hours.
Success is not forever, and failure is never final.
My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.
Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence.
You set a goal to be the best and then you work hard every hour of every day, striving to reach that goal. If you allow yourself to settle for anything less than number one, you are cheating yourself.
It’s the start that stops most people.
The problem with most leaders today is they don’t stand for anything. Leadership implies movement toward something, and convictions provide that direction. If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.
I have no magic formula. The only way I know to win is through hard work.
There’s nothing wrong with setting goals, but it doesn’t mean a thing if you don’t pay attention to the day-to-day details.
The whole idea is to get an edge. Sometimes it takes just a little extra something to get that edge, but you have to have it.
As a coach, your high standards of performance, attention to detail and – above all – how hard you work set the stage for how your players perform.
The ultimate goal is victory. And if you refuse to work as hard as you possibly can toward that aim, or if you do anything that keeps you from achieving that goal, then you are just cheating yourself.
Lots of leaders want to be popular. I never cared about that. I want to be respected.
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.
You know it’s only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.
Anybody that’s a Dolphins fan feels they’re headed in the right direction.
Failure isn’t fatal, and success isn’t final.
I don’t know any other way to lead but by example.