32 quotes found
“The unknown can be a great tool.”
“A team goal requires a team effort.”
“The great cancer facing all of us during this new millennium is entitlement.”
“Winners accept responsibility because acceptance of responsibility nullifies excuses.”
“we first need to get boys out for football and then the plan will gradually come into play”
“Being fired is part of the risk when anyone plans to take on the responsibility as a head coach.”
“This is truly a rags to riches story which doesnt happen often, but it does happen. Hope is offered to those who face similar challenges that in this great Country dreams can be realized when work ...”
“The coaches will offer a direction, a plan, routine, discipline and the players must develop the desire to work together accepting their roles as they learn in preparation for the season.”
“Nothing in life that is of value comes easy. If good things came easily then the value would be diminished. When we have a vested interest, when we give everything we have, then, and only then are ...”
“The youth of America need routine, repetition toward excellence, a sound but not punishing discipline, and the opportunity to make mistakes without the feeling of failure.”
“We live in a society that only embraces success and that is who we are. It takes a great deal of inner strength to deal with the time commitment of coaching when very little seems to be accomplished.”
“Every time our great Country has been critically challenged either by dictators or terrorists, we as a Country have put aside our personal agendas and focused on doing what we need to do to win whe...”
“Coaching is like riding a roller coaster with many ups and downs. The true test is weathering the storm. The average length of time anywhere in America that a man is a head high school football coa...”
“ I have experienced the youth of Generation X, Y and currently Z. Teenage boys have changed in many ways over the years. Yet still they are quite similar to the boys I first coached in 1980 at a hi...”
“It is so easy to judge those around us and decide their value without knowing who they really are or what they truly represent.”
“Sports programs are an important part of young peoples lives but should never over-shadow the true purpose of high school and that is to earn a diploma. So often today sports have become more impor...”
“It is important for coaches to mentor young people toward those things that are most important in life and aid them in creating their own order of priorities to live by.”
“I truly believe that success is determined not on Friday nights during games but rather in practice away from the lights and glimmer where coaches and players only have each other, their sweat, the...”
“The development of the We Believe philosophy must be real and not cosmetic. Everyone must buy in and understand that it is not a motivational tool, but rather something very personal that should be...”
“I think we had to hit rock-bottom in all facets of the program before we could ever start moving in a positive direction.”
“If you are not a part of the solution then you must be part of the problem. I am done with problems here!”
“I will not promise boys positions, I will not promise any of you football success, I will demand discipline, character, respect, and work ethic throughout the program. If I succeed in getting peopl...”
