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Football Coach Inspirational Quotes (457)

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Much of coaching consists of teaching and communicating ideas, concepts and philosophies to the players and my education helped make me a much more effective coach.
LaVell Edwards
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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
Lou Holtz
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I really believe everything is here for us to be very successful.
Steve Spurrier
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The difference nowadays is that when I go on vacation I work some of the time rather than all of the time.
Nick Saban
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I stayed on the track I wanted to stay on. I don’t think I deviated from what I’m all about and what I thought was important. Whether you want to call that a legacy, or whatever you want to call it.
Joe Paterno
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The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.
Lou Holtz
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The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.
Bum Phillips
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Something has to happen that you can't coach.
Bobby Bowden
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When you're born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God's terms.
Bill McCartney
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You want to learn everything that you possibly can, chew it, digest it, and take it for what it is, and then move on.
Mike Singletary
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Personally - I also continued my education while I was coaching, attending night school and summer school, taking correspondence courses, etc.
LaVell Edwards
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I never scrimmage Oilers against Oilers...What for? Houston isn't on our schedule.
Bum Phillips
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I don't play well enough to be allowed to throw my clubs.
Lou Holtz
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The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players.
Don Coryell
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A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.
Lou Holtz
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Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.
Lou Holtz
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The past should remain firmly behind one. The present holds enough obstacles.
Scott Frost
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My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.
Hank Stram
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I guess I'll retire someday if I live that long.
Bobby Bowden
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Systems don't win, players do.
Marv Levy
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If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.
Lou Holtz
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That's why you bring in a veteran player. You never know when a player goes down, a guy's got to step up and play.
Mike Shanahan
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I'd say handling people is the most important thing you can do as a coach. I've found every time I've gotten into trouble with a player, it's because I wasn't talking to him enough.
Lou Holtz
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People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.
Bobby Bowden
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