Bum Phillips Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.”
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“I'd rather have preparation than motivation. Everyone likes to play, but no one likes to practice.”
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“I done drew the line. Just like the Alamo. You're either on one side of the line or the other. I don't want to ever leave Texas again.”
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“Dallas Cowboys may be America's team, but the Houston Oilers are Texas' team.”
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“How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.”
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“The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.”
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“You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.”
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“Mama always said that if it can't rain on you, you're indoors.”
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“Loyalty, up and down the line. That's one quality an organization must have to be successful.”
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“I don't mind people thinking I'm stupid, but I don't want to give them any proof.”
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“If I drop dead tomorrow, at least I’ll know I died in good health.”
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“The road to the Super Bowl runs through Pittsburgh, sooner or later you've got to go to Pittsburgh.”
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“Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.”
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“The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.”
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“An expert is an ordinary fella away from home.”
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“The film looks suspiciously like the game itself!”
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“I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials.”
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“That boy could throw a ball through a car wash and not get it wet. (on Warren Moon)”
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“You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it.”
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“I never scrimmage Oilers against Oilers...What for? Houston isn't on our schedule.”
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“Yep. And I noticed how slowly he went down each time, too. (When asked if he noticed how slowly Earl Campbell got up after each play.)”
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“I always thought I could coach. I just thought people were poor judges of good coaches.”
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“There's two kinds of coaches, them that's fired and them that's gonna be fired.”
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“The harder we played, the behinder we got.”
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“Rogers sees daylight. Campbell makes daylight.”
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“Yeah, that test says he's dumb as a fence post, but when he hits he looks like Einstein to me.”
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“Coaching is not how much you know. It's how much you can get players to do.”
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