Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.
When you’re tired, you rationalize. You make excuses in your mind. You say, “I’m too tired; I’m bushed; I can’t do this; I’ll loaf.” Then you’re a coward.
If you cheat yourself in practice, you’ll cheat yourself in a game; and if you cheat in a game, you’ll cheat yourself for the rest of your life.
I think you’ve got to pay the price for anything that’s worthwhile, and success is paying the price. You’ve got to pay the price to win, you’ve got to pay the price to stay on top, and you ’ve got to pay the price to get there.
To me, the big thing in being a successful team is repetition of what you’re doing, either by word of mouth, blackboard, or specifically by work on the field. You repeat, repeat, repeat as a unit.
If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.
Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser.
Second place is meaningless. You can’t always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been – that you were never beaten – that time just ran out on you.
We don’t pray to win. We pray to play the best we can, and to keep us free from injury. And the prayer we say after the game is one of thanksgiving.
The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win.
Some need a whip and others a pat on the back and others are better off when they are ignored.
One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one’s mind.
Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.
One must not hesitate to innovate and change with the times. The leader who stands still is not progressing, and he will not remain a leader for long.
Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization...
Inches make champions.
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?