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You play to win the game.
Sep 29, 2025
The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.
Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.
They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.
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 achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team.
Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.
You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.
Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.
If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.
If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.
If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
Hell, no! A tie is like kissing your sister!
A tie is like kissing your sister.
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Attitude determines how well you do it.
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
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