Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
Mental toughness is essential to success.
If you don’t think you’re a winner, you don’t belong here.
The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.
Football isn’t a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport...
Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent’s strength.
To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price.
Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness, and respect for authority are the price each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn’t do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
Some people try to find things in this game that don’t exist but football is only two things – blocking and tackling.
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.
The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.
I would say that the quality of each man’s life is the full measure of that man’s commitment of excellence and victory – whether it be football, whether it be business, whether it be politics or government or what have you.
Mental toughness is a state of mind – you could call it ‘character in action.’
Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.
I think good physical conditioning is essential to any occupation. A man who is physically fit performs better at any job. Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
Praise in public; criticize in private.
The darkest moments of our lives are not to be buried and forgotten, rather they are a memory to be called upon for inspiration to remind us of the unrelenting human spirit and our capacity to overcome the intolerable.