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You play to win the game.
Sep 10, 2025
Every day, we've got to do something physical. It's mind, body and spirit.
There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true.
The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.
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
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.
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
winning is not everything it is the only thing
You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.
A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
The principle is competing against yourself.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.
We can't run. We can't pass. We can't stop the run. We can't stop the pass. We can't kick. Other than that, we're just not a very good football team right now.
The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.
I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become.
I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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?
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.
Football doesn't build character, it reveals character.
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.
When you win, nothing hurts.
Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
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.
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.
Attitude determines how well you do it.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.