Football Coaching Quotes:

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

- George Halas

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Best Coaches, Sports Football

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.

- Duffy Daugherty

source: Quoted in L.A. Times, 5 Oct. 1963

topic: Sports, Football, Contact, Inspirational Football Coach, Sports Coach

Always remember..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.

- Ralph Jordan

topic: Football, College, Remember, College Sports, Great Football

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Motivational, Teamwork, Football, Inspirational Football, Inspirational Football Coach

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Best Coaches, Just Give Up

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Best Success, Inspirational Football

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Motivational, Teamwork, Volleyball, Inspirational Football, Inspirational Football Coach

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

- Lou Holtz

topic: Motivational, Sports, Football, Inspirational Football Coach, College Sports

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport...

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Dance, Sports, Football, Inspirational Football Coach, Sports Coaching

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

- Duffy Daugherty

topic: Football, College, Grades, College Sports, Football Coaching

It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.

- Knute Rockne

topic: Football, College, Nfl, Notre Dame, College Sports

Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.

- John Heisman

topic: Football, Boys, Gentleman, Sports Football, Nfl Players

At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any.

- Erk Russell

topic: Football, College, Southern, Great Football, Football Coaching

When you win, nothing hurts.

- Joe Namath

topic: Softball, Sports, Baseball, Inspirational Softball, Motivational Football

If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.

- Murray Warmath

topic: Football, Team, College, College Sports, Great Football

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Football, Motivational Sports, School, Notre Dame, Deteriorating

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

- Lou Holtz

topic: Teamwork, Jobs, Nfl, Inspirational Football Coach, Inspirational Team Building

I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.

- Knute Rockne

source: "Text of Bush's Notre Dame speech". edition.cnn.com. May 20, 2001.

topic: Football, Prayer, College, Notre Dame, Prayer Works

The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.

- Knute Rockne

topic: Leadership, Football, College, Notre Dame, College Sports

Hell, no! A tie is like kissing your sister!

- Bear Bryant

topic: Favorite Sports, Softball Player, Inspirational Football Coach, Kissing Someone, Kissing You

Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died.

- Frank Leahy

topic: Football, College, Practice, Notre Dame, College Sports

They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces.

- Darrell Royal

topic: Football, Real, Cutting, College Sports, Football Coaching

Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.

- Darrell Royal

topic: Football, College, Two, Football Coaching, Football Fan

You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life.

- Paul Dietzel

source: Twitter post from Sep 05, 2014

topic: Football, Character, College, College Sports, Great Football

I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.

- Bear Bryant

topic: Quitter, College Sports, Great Football, Football Coaching, Football Fan

A tie is like kissing your sister.

- Duffy Daugherty

topic: Football, Kissing, College, Favorite Sports, Softball Player

I had no plan for that year but it wound up being one of the most important years of my football coaching career. It hit me along the way that I needed to really get at the heart of what's really true to myself. And then I was able to mold it and shape it in the years at SC to become the approach and the concept and the culture that we try to create here at Seattle.

- Pete Carroll

topic: Football, Heart, Years, True To Myself, Really True