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Football Coach Inspirational Quotes (457)

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Discipline is not punishment. Discipline is changing someone’s behavior.
Nick Saban
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Ya know, Hitler was a great leader, too.
Lou Holtz
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Players respond to coaches who really have their best interests at heart.
Mike Singletary
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Football players are busy (with) study halls and tutoring. Well, anyway, at South Carolina they are. I don't know about all these other schools.
Steve Spurrier
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The problem with most leaders today is they don't stand for anything. Leadership implies movement toward something, and convictions provide that direction. If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything
Don Shula
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I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.
Lou Holtz
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Recruiting can be a little deceiving at times. You never know what you've got until you really, really play it out.
Steve Spurrier
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The whole idea is to get an edge. Sometimes it takes just a little extra something to get that edge, but you have to have it.
Don Shula
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We create a standard for how we want to do things and everybody's got to buy into that standard or you really can't have any team chemistry. Mediocre people don't like high-achievers and high-achievers don't like mediocre people.
Nick Saban
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We have not come to compete with one another. We have come to complete one another.
Bill McCartney
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I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials.
Bum Phillips
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I don't think telling the truth ever gets anyone in trouble in the long run. Maybe the day after, but not in the long run.
Steve Spurrier
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So what am I willing to do? Do my work heartily, unto the Lord. There is no higher accountability in life than to do something for God. So that's kind of how I operate.
Mark Richt
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All we can do is evaluate what we see in practice.
Dabo Swinney
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I believe your attitude is the most important choice you can make.
Lou Holtz
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Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back.
Joe Paterno
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Yeah, that test says he's dumb as a fence post, but when he hits he looks like Einstein to me.
Bum Phillips
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Success without honor is an unseasoned dish it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
Joe Paterno
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Leadership implies movement toward something and convictions provide that direction.
Don Shula
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You will never be indecisive if you know your purpose.
Lou Holtz
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I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
Lou Holtz
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You can't get from A to Z by passing up B.
Nick Saban
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And then to end up with a total of 347 wins, averaging 10 regular season wins for 33 years and the best winning percentage, and I'm very proud of this, of any professional team from 1970 to 1996.
Don Shula
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I could sum it up in one thing: A guy has to be what he is. He's got to coach and have a philosophy based on his own personality. You see too many coaches trying to imitate other coaches, trying to be someone else. It's all right to emulate the qualities of good coaches but I don't think you should imitate. You've got to be yourself.
LaVell Edwards
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