GREAT MOTIVATIONAL COACHES PHRASES...

"Dumb players do dumb things. Smart players very seldom do dumb things." - Bill Parcels

"Losers assemble in litte groups and whine about the coaches and the system and other players and other little groups. Winners assemble as a TEAM." - Bill Bellichick


Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

"Coaching is an act of communication - of explaining what you want of people in a way that allows them to do it, assuming they have the ability." - Bill Parcells


The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed, creative, and effective you'll be when it counts.

Finding a way to win means avoiding ways to lose

Success is never final, but Failure can be.

THE TEAM IS NEVER UP

"For all the fancy things you see on the shelves, fruity things and chocolate things and things shaped like stars and loops, the No. 1 cereal in America is still Cornflakes! (The message: Keep It Simple)" - George Allen


"You can't live soft and fight hard. You have to program yourself. It just doesn't happen; it ain't a switch you can turn on or off as you walk through the door of the complex. I mean, I live, read, eat, sleep, nuts football.That's me. That's what I do. And if you don't do that, then this game is going to eat you up and devour you." - Warren Sapp



" There's tremendous competitive balance. No matter where you were last year, you can win it this year. If you win it, you'll be on top of the world. Make sure you don't screw it up by something dumb off the field, or by letting down on the field." - NFL Commissioner, Paul Tagliabue, addresing the St. Louis Rams in training camp prior to winning the Super Bowl in the 1999 football season.



"Football was my refuge, my social life, and for a long time my salvation. Part of the reason I excelled was that I was blessed with athletic ability, but the biggest secrets of my success were the obvious ones; I worked my butt off, and I cared more about being the best than anyone else I knew." - Two time NFL MVP, Kurt Warner



"Chose your friends wisely." - Ray Lewis

"The main thing, is the main thing." - thingy Vermeil

"We're not interested in players with problems. We want you to put every problem you have behind you. I don't need guys who have pregnant girlfriends that are calling them on the phone and all that nuts. I am too old for it and I don't care about it. I want guys that can concentrate on being a football player." - Bill Parcels



"I reject the notion that football is warfare. Football is discipline. It's team love. It's reason plus passion.' Hall of Fame Defensive End, Bruce Smith

"I considered it an honore to play football. And I believe that when you go on that field, you have a responsibility, not only to yourself, but to your ball club, your family, and the fans. I believe that. You hear a lot of folks talk about coaches giving pregame talks, inspirational speeches, and all that bullnuts in the dressing room prior to a game. My inspirational speech was when they played the National Anthem. That really got me fired up. It always fired me up and I wanted to go hit somebody. nuts, when they sang, 'O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave,' I'm ready to go knock the hell out of somebody. And I feel that way today. I'll be watching a game, they play the National Anthem, goddammit, my blood starts boiling. I felt I owed a responsibility to myself, to my team, and to the fans that had plunked down their bucks to come see my play. Always felt that way." - one of the very first black NFL players, Paul "Tank" Younger








“It’s really embarrassing.IT really is. It’s embarrassing. Can’t hit the snap count. Can’t line up on side. There are f**king holding penalties in the defensive passing game every week for key conversions. There are holding penalties on offense, giving the ball away like we don’t give a nuts about it. Just turn it over to ‘em. Leave the ball lying on the field there for five seconds while they come from 30 yards away to recover it. It’s just dumb football, fellas.I’ll tell you one other thing too, I’ve read a couple of comments. Now, I don’t spend a lot of time reading the paper. I really don’t. but I do watch a little about what we say and what we think. I’ve seen a couple comments here, some of the players talking about we need to get our ‘swagger’ back. Our attitude back.....you know what? We didn’t have a ‘swagger’ last year. If you f**king think about it, we didn’t have a swagger. What we had awas a sense of urgency, a sense of urgency about playing well, being smart, and capitalizing on every opportunity and situation that came our way….it wasn’t about a f**king swagger. You can take that swagger and shove it up your ass, okay?!” - Bill Belichick, addressing the team during the Patriots 2003 season.










You have the ability in 2005 to make this a special year or a very average year by the leadership you provide. Leadership for a football team began as soon as last season ended. In the weight room, on campus, and in everything we do, our seniors must show us the way. Ask yourself these questions; if not me, who? If not now, when? We will go as far as YOU want us to go, and we will be as successful as YOU want us to be, so let's pull together and make your senior year a season to remember" - excerpt from University of California 2002 Leadership Handbook (Jeff Tedford)




" I think of my whole life as a competition now. I don't want to back off feeling like I am too competitive, or think it is a bad thing. I think being competitive is a good thing, but don't stick it in somebody's face. 'To be competitive is to be motivated and to be driven'." - Pete Carroll, Two-time National Champion USC Head Coach



" In our first meeting, I walk up to the podium. The first thing I do is pull out a football and say, 'The philosophy of our program is all about the ball. All phases of our program, offense and defense.' It's about the ball. If we are on offense, it's about keeping it forever until you score. You don't give it back to them until you try to pun tthe ball down into the corner. You don't give it back unless you just scored and you are kicking it off to them. Everyhing tha twe do, every aspect of our program, every player on offense has a responsibility about the football because it could be the snapper. It coul dbe the guard and pass protection. It coul dbe the left tackle. It could be the fullback or tailback carrying the ball. Everybody has got an aspec tthat they are totally responsibile for the football. On defense, we don't play defense to stop you or to go three and out. We play defens eto get the football back. We are out there every snap to get the football. On special teams, every aspect of it. It is the biggest play in the game because so many yards are exchanged and the ball is up in the air for so long. There are so many opportunities for the ball to go right or wrong. We have a tremendous conscience about the football."- Pete Carroll








"If everything is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking" - General George S. Patton

"What are you stupid?"

Aww crap, you wanted motivational stuff.

I always tell my guys they are professionals. They seem to like that term because it makes them feel more mature. They are going to work, so they have to do things right all day every day.

"We walked to the feild, flipped a coin and then all hell broke loose; whoever said this was just a game better think again."

"The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war." George Patton

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Aristotle

"The nose of the bulldog is slanted back so he can breath without ever letting go." Churchill

"Just win baby." Al Davis

"90% of this game is 1/2 mental." Yogi Berra

“I hated every day of training; but I said don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life a champion!”
Muhammad Ali

"You don't have to win all 15 weeks, you just have to win week 15."


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Blame No One, Expect Nothing, Do Something! Be 1-0 Today.

Just do the little things and the rest will take care of itself.

You don't hurt them if you don't hit them.

Pain is weakness leaving the body.

Whoever controls your lockerroom, controls your team

I searched for glory ...and glory I did not see,
I searched for victory...and victory eluded me,
I searched for TEAMWORK...and found all three.

I use a lot of GEN GS Patton Quotes:

“By perseverance, study, and eternal desire, any man can become great.”

“Do more than is required of you.”

“I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.” (kid love that one!)

“If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself.”

"May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.” (another kid favorite)

“Success is how you bounce on the bottom.” (this was after a tough loss)

“You’re never beaten until you admit it.”

A very quotable man... I have used some of his quotes, changing the word "war" with "football".

Came across a really good one this morning in the book "The Bowden Way", by Bobby Bowden. "Better to be restrictive and then loosen up, than to start loose and then try to pull in the reins". Thats a good way to look at discipline as a coach or manager......

Most great coaches, teachers, managers all start out hard, and then loosen up a bit like you said, Coach Cal, when trust and respect is gained. "Starting out loose and then try to pull in the reigns"-see Barry Switzer....Wayne Fontes...Richie Kotite..Dave Campo.
Jim Mora Jr. is in the same boat. Trust me. Watch Mike Vick go down or Warrick Dunn go down with a severe injury early in a season and watch his giggly, fun-loving, "snuggle with my players" style blow up in his face.