Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.
A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches.
Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.
When I was coaching, the one thought that I would try to get across to my players was that everything I do each day, everything I say, I must first think what effect it will have on everyone concerned.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
It is time for everyone to sit down -the NCAA, the NBA, the players union and the coaching fraternity-and come up with suitable solutions to these problems.
Talent works, genius creates.
My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.
So I don't really believe that how many years you've had in the league determines how well your players play... Coaching is coaching.
You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life.
One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.
You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
I always stressed that I didn't have coaching experience, but that I did have a deadline: June 9.
At the same time, it makes me feel like I have to prove myself to the new guys coming in as well as prove myself to the coaching staff, which is a good bit of motivation for me.
It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.
I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.
The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.
I did a few more plays, and then I went to L.A., because I knew I could get a coaching job there.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
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