LaVell Edwards Quotes

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• Those who have succeeded have also had the ability to overcome adversity, disappointment, and even tragedy in their lives.
• Milestones you'd like to reach before retiring? Not really. Because when I began it was never to reach 100 games or reach 200 or to…
• I'd rather lose and live in Provo than win and live in Laramie
• Edwards commented as he signed an extension to his contract. They had changed coaches every three or four years before my getting the head job.…
• After the Cougars' 19-15 Cotton Bowl victory over Kansas State We're the only team in NCAA history to win 14 games in a season. It…
• Looking at the championship-winning quarterbacks, Edwards remembered their particular talents: Jim McMahon: A great natural leader. Great ability. Great presence. For a guy who was…
• He will return with a greater understanding of himself, greater leadership capabilities, better work habits, and a better knowledge of what it takes to be…
• After attending a banquet honoring the 1974 BYU team that won the Western AthleticConference and went to the Fiesta Bowl. It was the first of…
• I was asked this morning if it was frustrating to be 13-1 last year and not have more recognition and I said, "Hey man, I'd…
• And I want you to know that I have had the greatest support from President Bateman. I could coach as long as I want to…
• Edwards recalled that he once planned to coach until he was 60 as he signed an extension to his contract. I was about 62 before…
• Potential does not always ensure success. The greatest players have not always been the most endowed. In athletics, we often hear the phrase, "He has…
• My sons served excellent missions, and returned to participate in college athletics. In their letters home, and even now that they have been back for…
• The main reason for doing it now had more to do with the players. This is a great group. This particular group has really worked…
• We tend to look at successful athletes and make them almost bigger than life. I have seen many young men who have achieved greatness. I…
• When I started I knew it was a matter of when, not if, I would get fired. That's because that was just the past history…
• They can't fire me because my family buys too many tickets.
• Speaking as he unintentionally launched his farewell tour by announcing that the 2000 season would be his last before retirement: Honestly, I had never, ever…
• When we have adversity we oftentimes tend to look around and think that we're the Lone Ranger. We tend to believe that we're the only…
• Reminiscing, with obvious emotion, on his long career: It's like the size of the crowd here today. It always surprises me. But I do appreciate…

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