Amos Alonzo Stagg quotes
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“To me, the coaching profession is one of the noblest and most far-reaching in building manhood.”
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“No man is too good to be the athletic coach for youth.”
-- Amos Alonzo StaggSource : Amos Alonzo Stagg, Wesley Winans Stout (1927). “Touchdown!: As told by Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg to Wesley Winans Stout”
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“Is this my best team ever? I won't know that for another 20 years or so.”
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“I pray not for victory, but to do my best.”
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“Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it.”
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“Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it. When I reach the soul of one of my boys with an idea, or ideal, or vision, then I have done my job as a coach.”
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“Tonight is not a setback. It's just a learning experience.”
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“The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.”
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“Aaron Rodgers, starting quarterback - that just has a good ring to it.”
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“I wrote a book on life coaching, because my life became my own reference point how to live.”
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“I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest.”
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“Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.”
Source : Alexander McCall Smith (2004). “The Sunday Philosophy Club”, p.153, Anchor
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“I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.”
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