Inspiring football Quotes · Page 2

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

— Chuck Noll

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

— John Madden

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

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

Winning would create greater potential for change than talk alone.

— Tony Dungy

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

— Marv Levy

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

— Marv Levy

I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between…

— Roy Keane

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers…

— 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

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

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

— John Madden

We wanted guys who had been productive in college, and we made it a point to pick performance over potential.

— Tony Dungy

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

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

— Bum Phillips

Knowing his coach likes him is more important to a player than anything else.

— John Madden

I learned it doesn't matter how you win. You play to your team's strength.

— Tony Dungy

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

— 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

A team that has character doesn't need stimulation.

— Tom Landry

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

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

— John Madden

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

— Marv Levy

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

— Tony Dungy

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

— Don Shula

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

— Bum Phillips

To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it.

— John Madden

Security comes from earning it-not seeking it.

— Marv Levy

Coaching is not how much you know. It's how much you can get players to do.

— Bum Phillips

Expect rejection, but expect even more strongly to overcome it.

— Marv Levy

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

— Marv Levy

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

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

— Marv Levy

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

— Tom Landry