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The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.
Sep 17, 2025
The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there.
If you're willing to put yourself and your dreams on the line, at the very least you'll discover an inner strength you may not have known existed.
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.
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line.
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
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.
Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
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.
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.
The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.
Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.
The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
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?
Remind your critics when they say you don't have the expertise or experience to do something that an amateur built the ark and the experts built the Titanic
Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.
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.
When you win, nothing hurts.
Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.
I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Attitude determines how well you do it.