Inspiring football Quotes · Page 2

The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.

— Chuck Noll

You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.

— Bill Parcells

We believed it was not our formations that made us good, but rather how we played.

— Tony Dungy

Never make a major decision based solely on money.

— Chuck Noll

That boy could throw a ball through a car wash and not get it wet. (on Warren Moon)

— Bum Phillips

I always thought I could coach. I just thought people were poor judges of good coaches.

— Bum Phillips

What it takes to win is simple, it's not easy.

— Marv Levy

God allows us to feel pain for a reason: to protect us.

— Tony Dungy

How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.

— Bum Phillips

There's a difference between making incremental improvements and making sweeping changes that take you away from your core values.

— Tony Dungy

Yeah, that test says he's dumb as a fence post, but when he hits he looks like Einstein to me.

— Bum Phillips

The best solution for falling just short of the goal is to focus on the fundamentals but perform them better.

— Tony Dungy

It's the journey that matters. Learning is more important than the test. Practice well, and the games will take care of themselves.

— Tony Dungy

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.

— Bill Parcells

At the end of the day, the only people a One Voice doctrine silences are those who should be the most loyal.

— Tony Dungy

We have no leadership. They rule by herd. Nobody is in charge. It reminds me of a bunch of cows.

— Bud Grant

We spent our whole married life in the ultra-competitive world of professional football, Lauren and I had always tried to view it…

— Tony Dungy

You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.

— Bum Phillips

Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners.

— Joe Gibbs

Boom, boom, foom, poom! He just ran right at 'em!

— John Madden

First become a winner in life. Then it's easier to become a winner on the field.

— Tom Landry

We only wanted to pay significant sums to keep truly special players.

— Tony Dungy

A good leader gets people to follow him because they want to, not because he makes them.

— Tony Dungy

What you do should speak so loudly that no one will hear what you say.

— Marv Levy

A champion is simply someone who did not give up when he wanted to.

— Tom Landry

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence.

— Tom Landry

When it's too hard for them, it's just right for us.

— Marv Levy

I found that while life drags on when you're losing, it marches on when you're winning.

— Tony Dungy

When you're there, it's not good enough to be there.

— Don Shula

Football is a vocation and an opportunity for ministry. But it's not a life.

— Tony Dungy

You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it.

— Bum Phillips

There will be many failures sprinkled among the successes you enjoy.

— Marv Levy

If we do what we do without panicking, we can accomplish great things.

— Tony Dungy

If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.

— John Madden

This is not a must-win; World War II was a must-win (Referring to the Super Bowl)

— Marv Levy

When you have great players, playing great, well that's great football!

— John Madden

Where else would you rather be than right here, right now?

— Marv Levy

Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong.

— Chuck Noll

A team that has character doesn't need stimulation.

— Tom Landry

A failure becomes just one time at bat if you refuse to let it defeat you.

— Marv Levy