It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men.

Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence.

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

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

Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.

Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.

Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization.

The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win.

In all my years of coaching, I have never been successful using somebody else's play.

We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.

Illness and fatigue can be career ending. It mean the fans are sick and tired of you.

A disciplined person is the one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.

When you travel with the team and you eat with the team - you eat what the team eats.

It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.

The will to win... the will to achieve...goes dry and arid without continuous renewal.

True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!

It is and has always been an American zeal to be first in everything we do, and to win.

The successful man is himself. To be successful, you've got to be honest with yourself.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall.

I've been accused of lacking compassion. But that just shows I'm not without compassion.

Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.

No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.

I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.

The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.

If you can't get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you're in the wrong business.

Some need a whip and others a pat on the back and others are better off when they are ignored.

I said, 'You missed practice yesterday didn't you?' The player replied, 'No coach, not a bit.'

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

The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.

There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.

They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons.

You've got to keep yourself in prime physical condition, because fatigue makes cowards of us all.

Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it.

Why did I choose Washington among offers from other cities? Because it is the capital of the world.

Relentlessly pursue perfection knowing we won't catch it, but in the process we'll achieve excellence.

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. If you can shrug off a loss, you can never be a winner!

Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.

To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate.

If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling.

Winning is not everything - but making the effort to win was... If you can't accept losing, you can't win.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.

If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love.

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