Football Coach Quotes

An important mentor for me, in terms of teaching me that there's a right way and a wrong way to do things, was probably my football coach. And playing football was one of the first times in my life that I realized nothing is given to you. You have to work really hard.

I'm the football coach around here and don't you remember it.

As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment.

If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.

Always remember..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.

I'm a football coach. I'm not a doctor ... They don't call plays, I don't do surgeries. We have a great deal here.

Just because one pedophile is a football coach, please don't turn against all pedophiles.

It's tougher to be a football coach than the President of the United States. You've got four years as a president, and they guard you. A football coach doesn't have anyone to protect him when things go wrong.

I'd rather be a football coach. That way you only lose eleven games a year.

I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach.

I am who I am. In the end, I feel that what I'm accountable for is doing a good job as a football coach.

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do

This kind of directing, I think, is very similar to being a football coach. You prepare your players and place them in the right places, but once the game is on, there's nothing much you can do - you can smoke a cigarette or get nervous, but you can't do much.

They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces.

For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities.

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

I'm not sure (whether Demetriou did anything wrong). I wouldn't have thought so ... but I'm not the ACC (Australian Crime Commission), I'm not ASADA. I'm a football coach trying to coach a game.

No athletic director holds office longer than two losing football coaches.

My dad was a college football coach, so we're a big athletic family. I was either going to be an athlete or an actor. As an actor, I hoped I would be able to bond the two.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?

They ask me what I'd like written about me when I'm gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach.

There are two things you can be certain of: dying and getting the arse as a football coach.

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.

God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.

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.

Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Congratulations to Ohio State, your new college football champions. Coach Urban Meyer may be the greatest football coach of all time. Don't confuse him with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio. That's urban quagmire.

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

Hell, no! A tie is like kissing your sister!

A tie is like kissing your sister.

Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.

When you win, nothing hurts.

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it.

If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.

The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

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.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.