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Portrait of Chuck Noll

Chuck Noll

(1932–2014) American Football Player

39 quotes in 284 categories

Chuck Noll was an American football player.

Quick Facts About Chuck Noll

Born: January 5, 1932
Died: June 13, 2014
Profession: American Football Player
Notable works: Football Legends : Steve Young, Joe Namath, Joe Montana, Terry Bradshaw, John Elway, Brett Favre, Dan Marino, Troy Aikman, Deion Sanders, Jerry Rice,

About Chuck Noll

Charles Henry Noll was an American professional football player and head coach. Regarded as one of the greatest head coaches of all time, his sole head coaching position was for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1969 to 1991. When Noll retired after 23 years, only three other head coaches in NFL history had longer tenures with one team.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Chuck Noll

Good things come to those who hustle

Angling

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A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Enjoyment

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Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.

Coaches

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I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don't strive for it, because I…

Always

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It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.

Building

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“Leaving the game plan is a sign of panic, and panic is not in our game plan.”

Anxiety

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

Adventure

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The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time. Winning one week at a time. Never look…

Success

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I used to tell the players that professional football is a part-time profession. I used to tell them it gets you ready…

Football

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Mamas, don't let your sons grow up to be Cowboys... or Oilers.

Children

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

Done

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On every team, there is a core group that sets the tone for everyone else. If the tone is positive, you have…

Battle

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As you gain experience, you mature as an individual, and along with that comes the confidence that you have the ability to…

Ability

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Pressure is what you feel when you don't know what's going on.

Best football

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Some citizens are so good that nothing a leader can do will make them better. Others are so incorrigible that nothing can…

Can do

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If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out.

Coaches

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Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.

Games

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Right now, you hear about teamwork, and it's defined as 50-50, and that is a falsehood. There's no such thing as 50-50.…

Falsehood

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The single most important thing we had in the Steelers of the '70s was the ability to work together.

Ability

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Everyone's job is important, but no one is indispensable.

Everyone

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Champions do ordinary things better than everyone else.

Champion

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Respectability? Who wants to be respectable? That's spoken like a true loser.

Like

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The critics are always right. The only way you shut them up is by winning.

Always

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Losing has nothing to do with geography.

Geography

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In 1969, we decided we had to do certain things technically to win, and we decided to do them then, even though…

Draft

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Chuck Noll by topic

Football (9) Winning (8)