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?
Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.
It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.
The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
The man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.