Inspiring football Quotes

There is winning and there is misery.

— Bill Parcells

Adversity is an opportunity for heroism.

— Marv Levy

The great ones don't come cheap.

— Mike Holmgren

Plan your work and work your plan.

— Anonymous

He got up looking out of his earhole!

— John Madden

Never throw into double coverage.

— Sid Gillman

I'm not really in the excuse business.

— Bill Parcells

Respect all. Fear none.

— Bum Phillips

If you have everything prepared, the rest will take care of itself.

— Marv Levy

There's two kinds of coaches, them that's fired and them that's gonna be fired.

— Bum Phillips

Winning would create greater potential for change than talk alone.

— 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

Never make a major decision based solely on money.

— Chuck Noll

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

— Bum Phillips

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

— 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

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

— John Madden

Change isn't always bad; we should always be learning and improving. But the change I was seeing involved principles, not procedures.

— Tony Dungy

Yep. And I noticed how slowly he went down each time, too. (When asked if he noticed how slowly Earl Campbell got…

— Bum Phillips

At some point in life's journey, professionally and personally, we have to be able to trust our preparation.

— Tony Dungy

Some coaches spend their time trying to get an overview of all eleven defenders. I prefer to zero in on one guy…

— Sid Gillman

Great football coaches have the vision to see, the faith to believe, the courage to do - and 25 great players.

— Marv Levy

Listen to what I tell you and do it. If you do, three things can happen: One, it will work and you'll…

— Mike Holmgren

What's important is not the uniform or the number, and it's not what team you play for or whether anyone else sees…

— Tony Dungy

The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this earth. It's not going be, "It…

— Joe Gibbs

When the passer's back foot hit the ground on his setup, I wanted the ball gone. If no one was open, if…

— Sid Gillman

I can't tell you how much you gain, how much progress you can make, by working together as a team, by helping…

— Chuck Noll

Hell, I live like I did when I was 35. I don't believe in retirement groups because I don't believe in retirement.…

— Sid Gillman

My reputation when I was first here was that I had every single answer in the book. I don't know, maybe I…

— Mike Holmgren

I love coaching football, and winning a Super Bowl was a goal I've had for a long time. But it has never…

— Tony Dungy

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

— Bill Parcells

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

— Chuck Noll

I think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly.

— Bill Parcells

I need to treat everybody fairly, but fair doesn't always mean equal.

— Tony Dungy

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

— Tom Landry

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

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

— Tony Dungy