Inspiring Football Quotes - Page 3

• Plan your work and work your plan.

  Marv Levy

  Inspirational, Football, Planning

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I hired top-notch people, trusted them to do their jobs, and then came to grips with the fact that I wouldn't be coaching as much.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Jobs

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• When you're in a situation, you can complain about it, you can feel sorry for yourself, you can do a lot of things. But how are you gonna make the situation better?

  Tony Dungy

  Sorry, Nfl, Complaining

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• The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.

  Don Shula

  Sports, Football, Winning

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• You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it.

  Bum Phillips

  Nfl, Splinters, Ladders

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Bum Phillips

  Winning, Player, Average

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.

  Bill Parcells

  Thinking, Nfl, Passing

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• Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.

  Bill Parcells

  Player, Nfl, Coaching

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• You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.

  Bill Parcells

  Nfl, Trying, Results

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• I'm not really in the excuse business.

  Bill Parcells

  Nfl, Excuse

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• When you have great players, playing great, well that's great football!

  John Madden

  Funny, Football, Player

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• I think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly.

  Bill Parcells

  Thinking, Air, Nfl

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

  Chuck Noll

  Winning, Thrill

  "Chuck Noll, Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Steelers coach, dies at 82", www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2014.

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• When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to.

  John Madden

  Funny, Nfl, Balls

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• The best feeling is watching a real football game, because the games they show in the movies aren't real.

  John Madden

  Funny, Football, Real

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• Change isn't always bad; we should always be learning and improving. But the change I was seeing involved principles, not procedures.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Nfl

  Tony Dungy (2011). “Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life”, p.189, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.

  Tom Landry

  Motivational, Sports, Jobs

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• That boy could throw a ball through a car wash and not get it wet. (on Warren Moon)

  Bum Phillips

  Football, Boys, Moon

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• I found that while life drags on when you're losing, it marches on when you're winning.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Winning

  Tony Dungy (2007). “Quiet Strength: A Memoir”, p.131, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I said all along that God is in control.

  Tony Dungy

  Football, Nfl, God Is In Control

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• They were unwillingly to give 100 percent if they didn't personally think it was important. What you don't understand is the champions know it's all important.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Thinking

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• We only wanted to pay significant sums to keep truly special players.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Player

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• At some point in life's journey, professionally and personally, we have to be able to trust our preparation.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Journey

  Tony Dungy (2011). “Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life”, p.259, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• There's a difference between making incremental improvements and making sweeping changes that take you away from your core values.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Nfl

  Tony Dungy (2011). “Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life”, p.180, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• We wanted guys who had been productive in college, and we made it a point to pick performance over potential.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, College

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