You defeat defeatism with confidence.
They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons.
Success demands singleness of purpose.
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.
One must not hesitate to innovate and change with the times. The leader who stands still is not progressing, and he will not remain a leader for long.
Some need a whip and others a pat on the back and others are better off when they are ignored.
Leadership rests not only on outstanding ability. It also rests on commitment, loyalty and pride. It rests on followers who are ready to accept guidance. Leadership is the ability to direct people and - more important - to have those people accept that direction.
Leaders are not born, they're made.
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.
The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win.
We win our games in practice. We learn and follow the fundamentals of our game better than anyone in the league. All of our games are won in practice.
Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.
One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one's mind.
To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
We live in an age fit for heroes. No time has ever offered such perils or prizes... The test of this century will be whether man confuses the growth of wealth and power with the growth of spirit and character.
All right mister, let me tell you that winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.
They may not love you at the time, but they will later.
It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men.
They do not truly love who do not show their love.
Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.
I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.
A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
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