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Post by coachdubyah on Apr 27, 2009 20:41:39 GMT -6
I have seen them all over the board. Give me some good quotes. Don't necessarily have to be football related, but what are your favorities? I have been on a big "Quote of the Day" kick this semester. Here are some of my favorites.
"If you're a fastball pitcher, don't lose the game throwing a change up." Nick Saban
"If I'm given 10 days to chop down a tree, I am going to spend 9 days sharpening the AX." Abe Lincoln
"When work is to be done, some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and others don't even turn up at all." Dont Know who said that one.
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Post by coachorr on Apr 27, 2009 21:30:43 GMT -6
That is some good stuff right there. Almost as good as the screen name "dubayah", I love it!
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Post by coachdubyah on Apr 27, 2009 21:40:20 GMT -6
That is some good stuff right there. Almost as good as the screen name "dubayah", I love it! Got the nickname in college.
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Post by cmow5 on Apr 27, 2009 22:22:32 GMT -6
Here is some great quotes that you could use.
;D Hill Larry Us
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Post by coach4life on Apr 27, 2009 22:35:16 GMT -6
That boy ain't ever gonna build a science rocket but he flat out knows how to get around the corner.
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Post by tsu on Apr 27, 2009 22:44:00 GMT -6
"there are three things that can happen wen you pass, and two of them are bad" every coach before 1970
"boys were luckier than a three peckered billy goat" followed by silence! my freshman football coach
"i would rather loose with correcter then win without it" my high school head coach this meant allot to me, i plan to live by it
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Post by tsu on Apr 27, 2009 22:46:26 GMT -6
that was suppose to be character! oops
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Post by ccox16 on Apr 27, 2009 22:47:02 GMT -6
whats correcter?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2009 0:18:00 GMT -6
Excuses are the nails used to build the house of failure
The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep running.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs - henry ford
All I knew is that I never wanted to be average - michael jordan
'To have a great purpose to work for, a purpose larger than ourselves, is one of the secrets of making life significant, for then the meaning and worth of the individual overflow his personal borders and survive his death." -- Will Durant
"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory." -- Mahatma Gandhi
"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." -- Albert Pike
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ''Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion" - ali
If no one laughs at your dreams, you're not dreaming big enough.
"One who is weak must prepare against his enemy. One who is strong makes his enemy prepare against him."
the only job where you start at the top is digging a hole
the true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching
There are no shortcuts to get to any place worth going.
Never let a day go by where you missed the opportunity to get better
you accomplish victory step by step, not by leaps and bounds
It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts
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Post by realdawg on Apr 28, 2009 5:12:24 GMT -6
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth enough effort to achieve your goals.
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Post by JMC on Apr 28, 2009 6:13:46 GMT -6
“Fear not those who argue, but those who dodge!”
“Master your emotions or be mastered by them.”
“Great challenges require great teamwork!”
“The first key to being a team player is being willing to adapt yourself to the team.”
“Un-teachable people have a difficult time with change, and as a result they never adapt well.”
“Be emotionally secure in yourself, those who are not meet with suspicion the addition of another talented person to the team.”
“When difficult times come, winners find a way!”
“People who are focused on themselves are less likely to make changes for the team.” “Not why it can’t be done, but how it can be done.”
“If you are willing to change and adapt for the sake of your team, you always have a chance to win.”
“Collaboration is working together aggressively; collaborative teammates bring something to the table that adds value to the relationship of the team.”
“Be supportive, not suspicious of teammates.”
“When you work together with your teammates, you can do remarkable things; if you work alone you leave a lot of victories on the table.”
“Do you bring cooperation and added value to your teammates even to the people you don’t enjoy being with?”
“There are no half hearted champions.”
“Ordinary people with commitment can make an extraordinary impact.”
“Commitment is not an emotion; it’s a character quality that enables us to reach our goals.”
“Emotions go up and down, but commitment is rock solid.”
“Commitment usually is discovered in the midst of adversity.”
“Without communication, you don’t have a team; you have a collection of individuals.”
“Great communicators give attention to potentially difficult relationships.”
“If you can’t, your team won’t!”
“Teams go, to go to players.”
“All players have a place where they add the most value.”
“The strength of the team is impacted by its weakest length.”
“Winning teams have players who make things happen.”
“Rotten attitudes ruin a team.”
Attitudes have the power to lift up or tear down a team. Abilities + Attitudes = Results Great Talent + Rotten Attitudes = Bad Team Great Talent + Bad Attitudes = Average Team Great Talent + Average Attitudes = Good Team Great Talent + Good Attitudes = Great Team
“Most bad attitudes are the result of selfishness.”
“The team fails to reach its potential when it fails to pay the price.”
“Teammates must be able to count on each other when it counts.”
Character + Competence + Commitment + Consistency + Cohesion = Accountability
“The difference between two equally talented teams is leadership.”
“When you’re winning nothing hurts.”
“To finish first you must finish.”
“Don’t find fault find a remedy.”
“Loyalty fosters unity, and unity breeds team success.”
“All getting separates you from others, all giving unites to others.”
“To be trusted is a greater complement than to be loved.”
“You can’t make the other fellow feel important in your presence if you secretly feel she is a nobody.”
“Anyone who loves her opinions more than her teammates will advance her opinions but set back her team.”
“Enthusiasm is contagious. It’s difficult to remain neutral or indifferent in the presence of a positive thinker.”
“People can succeed at almost anything for which they have enthusiasm.”
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
“People will always move toward anyone who increases them and away for others who devalue them.”
“……trying times are not time to quit trying.”
“You have not lived today successful unless you’ve done something for someone who can never repay you.”
“Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.”
“Courage has no greater ally than preparation, and fear has no greater enemy.”
“A team isn’t really a team if it isn’t going anywhere!”
“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”
“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”
“You’ve go to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.”
“The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.”
“Most of us plateau when we lose the tension between where we are and where we ought to be.”
“Discipline is doing what you really don’t want to do so that you can do what you really want to do.”
“Dependability is more than ability alone.” “What you tolerate you encourage.”
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Post by davecisar on Apr 28, 2009 6:29:09 GMT -6
Good is the enemy of great- Collins
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Post by dubber on Apr 28, 2009 8:24:54 GMT -6
"If that guy gets pass you I will cut your body in half with the edge of a coin. It can be done. I saw it on CSI:NY"
Awesome.
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Post by tiger8387 on Apr 28, 2009 13:24:19 GMT -6
10. "I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades." - Duffy Daugherty, Michigan State 9. "Three things can happen when you pass the ball, and two of them are bad." - Woody Hayes, Ohio State 8. "Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in bad humor." - Bowden Wyatt, Tennessee 7. When asked: Coach, how do you feel about your team's execution? John McKay (USC) replied: "I'm in favor of it." 6. "At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any" - Erik Russell, Georgia Southern 5. "Football is not a contact sport-it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport." - Duffy Daugherty, Michigan State 4. "I had a lifetime contract, but the administration declared me dead." - Frank Howard, Clemson 3. "I've found that prayers work best when you have big players." - Knute Rockne, Notre Dame 2. "I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation." - Bob Devaney, Nebraska 1. "We didn't tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking." - John McKay, USC www.faniq.com/blog/Greatest-College-Football-Quotes-Of-AllTime-Lou-Holtz-John-McKay-and-Knute-Rockne-Among-Other-Greats-Blog-11317
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Post by tiger8387 on Apr 28, 2009 13:26:03 GMT -6
Best of the Rest:
"Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died." - Frank Leahy, Notre Dame
"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it." - Lou Holtz, Arkansas
"Football is only a game. Spiritual things are eternal. Nevertheless, Beat Texas." - Seen on a church sign in Arkansas prior to the 1969 game.
"Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated." - Lou Holtz, Arkansas
"A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall." - Frank Leahy, Notre Dame
"There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you." - Woody Hayes, Ohio State
"Always remember..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David." - Shug Jordan, Auburn
"They whipped us like a tied up goat." - Spike Dykes, Texas Tech
"The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb." - Knute Rockne, Notre Dame
"Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football" - John Heisman
"You learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life." - Paul Dietzel, LSU
“Dance with the one who brung ya.” - Darrell Royal, Texas A&M
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Post by jpdaley25 on Apr 28, 2009 16:45:53 GMT -6
I've always liked this one: "The aphorism, 'As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he,' not only embraces the whole of a man's being, but is so comprehensive as to reach out to every condition and circumstance of his life. A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts." - James Allen This comes from a short book called As a Man Thinketh by James Allen. You can download an E-book copy of it for free. Just search the title and you will find it. I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to lead a better life, and I share some of it with my players from time to time. I also looked for the old "Humorous Coaching Expressions" thread and couldn't find it. I guess it was getting a little too racey and it got yanked from public view - I haven't laughed so hard in years!
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Post by fbdoc on Apr 28, 2009 17:09:18 GMT -6
"We few, we happy few, we Band of Brothers; for he who stays and sheds his blood with me today, shall be my brother." - Bill Shakespeare
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Post by jpdaley25 on Apr 28, 2009 17:25:10 GMT -6
I favor the parts:
"If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; but if to win, the fewer men, the greater share of honor!"
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"Any man who has no stomach to this fight, let him depart. We would not die in that man's company who fears his fellowship to die with us."
I think Shakespeare would have been a helluva football coach!
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Post by Rooster on Apr 28, 2009 18:42:17 GMT -6
I am hurt, but I am not slain; I’le lay me downe and bleed a-while, And then I’le rise and fight again.
Marv Levy quoted this old english poem alot.....
Rooster
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Post by fbdoc on Apr 28, 2009 19:10:35 GMT -6
Rooster - that's a good one, but I can't believe you didn't offer a "Rooster" quote... My favorite -
"Say your prayers, you sonofabittcch!"
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Post by tog on Apr 28, 2009 19:44:42 GMT -6
scratch where it itches
hayden fry
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Post by schultbear74 on Apr 28, 2009 19:57:48 GMT -6
enthusiasm is caught not taught
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Post by mariner42 on Apr 28, 2009 22:49:15 GMT -6
"We few, we happy few, we Band of Brothers; for he who stays and sheds his blood with me today, shall be my brother." - Bill Shakespeare VERY minor correction, but it's "he today who sheds his blood with me, shall be my brother". I've always been partial to: "In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility: but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; then lend the eye a terrible aspect" ---Henry V, III.i.5-9 That was always my goal as a player, be as modest and humble as I could in day to day life, but then be as "terrible" and "hard-favour'd" as possible on the field.
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Post by fbdoc on Apr 29, 2009 7:06:16 GMT -6
To the players:
"I would have you day by day, fix your eyes upon the greatness of your country (in this case, your football program); until you become filled with love of her; and when you are impressed by the spectacle of her glory reflect that it was acquired by men who knew their duty and had the courage to do it" -- Pericles
To the Parents:
"The Great aim of Education is not Knowledge, but Action." --Herbert Spencer
To the Coaches:
"End practice on a Happy Note." -- John Wooden
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Post by fbdoc on Apr 29, 2009 7:38:03 GMT -6
A couple more -
For coaches:
"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one becomes a master." -- Hemingway
For players:
"...to set the cause above renown, to love the game beyond the prize. To honor, while you strike him down, the foe that comes with fearless eyes. To count the life of battle good and dear the land that gave you birth, and dearer yet, the brotherhood that binds the brave of all the Earth." -- Sir Henry Newbolt
"Its an old story, but the glory of it is forever." Virgil
"Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps twice." -- St. Jerome
"The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently but the courage to live like a man." -- Thomas Carlyle
And to parents and sometimes administrators - this one hangs in my office:
"Rather let us have men whose manhood is only a continuation of their boyhood; natural characters still - such that are able and fertile for heroic action; and not that sad spectacle with which we are too familiar, educated eyes in uneducated bodies." --- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Post by fbdoc on Apr 29, 2009 8:27:28 GMT -6
Mariner - nice quote but you left off my favorite part from the beginning...
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;"
Our d-line coach in college used that one a lot!
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Post by fbdoc on Apr 29, 2009 12:32:35 GMT -6
Ok, here's a couple more -
"I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win some noble renown." -- Plato
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"The parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a LATE parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up daises. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot." --- John Cleese of Monty Python
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Post by justryn2 on Apr 29, 2009 16:05:49 GMT -6
"If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others." - Tryon Edwards.
I really like this quote and think it applies well to football, or at least to football coaches, because I think football teaches young men how to be better men. Things like learning how much practice it takes to improve, overcoming adversity, teamwork; all kinds of things that make us better people. So, when I teach these things, I am also learning them more thoroughly and therefore becoming a better man myself.
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Post by devilsadvocate on Apr 29, 2009 17:50:46 GMT -6
"I threw a ball into the air. It hit the ground. I knew not where. And that is why I sit and dream On the bench, with the second team!" --Red Faught
It's embarrassing to admit I had that poem memorized by the third practice of Red's arrival. He kept reciting it to me. By the fourth practice, I was a wide receiver.
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Post by warriorhog51 on May 1, 2009 9:15:24 GMT -6
Here is a list that I compiled that I draw from on a weekly basis:
"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his sould and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even" -Ali
"I hated every minute of training, but I said 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion." -Ali
"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill." -Ali
"Don't count the days, make the days count." -Ali
"A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done." -Lombardi
"All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means...you're willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else." -Lombardi
"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where you enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on." -Ulysses S. Grant
"It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." -Sir Winston Churchill
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defens our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." -Sir Winston Churchill
"You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a 2x4." -Dan Birdwell
"If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it." -Brendan Francis
"History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today." -Henry Ford
"Think big, believe big, be big, and the end result will be BIG."
"If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat." -Herschel Walker
"When you get off that bus you've got to be prepared to someone in the mouth....the more teeth that fall the better. They have to know that if they choose to stick around it's going to be a long 60 minutes." -Jack Lambert
"It's like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired." -Robert Strauss
"People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get." -Fredrick Douglass
One of my all time favorites:
"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." -T.S. Elliot
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