Favorite Sports Quote / Motivational Quote

Watching nfl network last night john mckay back in his hay day tells reporters "we are on a five year plan, mainly because my contract is for five years." I like it.

Only passion, great passion can elevate this team to greatness.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Football is a game of passion. You must have a passion for victory!!

Hawke
(Same)

A player asked me, "What is passion?"

Passion - a disturbance in your heart that says, "I want, I want, I want!!!"

Hawke

"I try to coach people the way that I would want to be coached." ~ Tony Dungy

"The name on the front of the jersey is more important than the name on the back."-Joe Paterno

"The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team."-John Wooden



"We can't make a block and we can't make a tackle...otherwise we're in great shape."-John McKay

One that really got me as far as my philosophy was a conversation I had with a at camp where there were 2 wing-t teams a I team and the other 14 were spread.
" I don't know coach you get beat by one of these teams and you get on the bus go home shower and a hour later there out holding hands with there girlfriends. Now being a.smash mouth power running football team is sort of like that inglourus basterds movie it leaves them with something there not gonna take off when they go home if you know.what I mean" kind of twisted but I love it.

As far as known coaches Alex Gibbs needs a.book.
("we might not win the 1 on 1 but we better win the {censored} 2 on one"
" if you tackel my back I'm gonna cut your ass"
" if a center can't handel a shade by himself he's a {censored}"
And the bill cowher stuff about winning ugly and just doing what we do

I love this one, but I love it even more for Todd Blackledge's comment at Joe's memorial service;
"I always thought that was odd because we never had a name on the front either."

Pick one!
www.vincelombardi.com/quotes.html


What It Takes to be Number One
"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all of the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game, and that's first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.

Every time a football player goes to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.

Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization - an army, a political party or a business. The principles are the same. The object is to win - to beat the other guy. Maybe that sounds hard or cruel. I don't think it is.

It is a reality of life that men are competitive and the most competitive games draw the most competitive men. That's why they are there - to compete. The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules - but to win.

And in truth, I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline. There is something in good men that really yearns for discipline and the harsh reality of head to head combat.

I don't say these things because I believe in the ‘brute' nature of men or that men must be brutalized to be combative. I believe in God, and I believe in human decency. But I firmly believe that any man's finest hour -- his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear -- is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious."
- Coach Vincent T. Lombardi

September Is For Pretenders, October Is For Contenders

We teach how we were taught, we coach how we were coached, and we lead how we were led.

We win doing the little things.

Generally I don't need quotes to guide me, I go by a core set of principles and by what I've learned along the way. Having 4 children helps when dealing with young people.

What I tell my team is the following:

To new players in the program
"You don't get a second chance to make a first impression."

When we start practice in the fall I use:
"A journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step."

When kids think they know enough to berate teammates for mistakes I tell them:
"Just take care of you...that's a full time job!"

When my own kids were young and complained about the food at home I told them:
"This isn't s restaurant, its a mess hall."
(Added that one for yucks!)

If anything sums up our program its:
Good, Better, Best
Never let it rest,
Until the Good is Better
And the Better Best

Also heard a great on by Colin Cowherd the other day that has meaning to me:
"Write your life's outline in pencil, not pen."

How many of us does that apply to??

Success is peace of mind that is a direct result in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. - John Wooden

Dean Smith I believe.

I love these. I always give my offensive linemen a goal sheet on game day and they are full of these motivational and inspirational quotes. I can't believe nobody said the famous Lombardi quote though

"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious."

From the book, "Our Boys" about the football team in Smith Center, Kansas...."Things disappear a lot quicker than it takes you to build them up."
Roger Barta
Head Football Coach
Smith Center HS