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Coachspeak In athletics there are two secrets to being a success. They have to do with good preparation … mentally and emotionally. If you are not emotional about what you are doing you’re not going to reach your full potential. There is no substitute for good preparation in anything. Good preparation definitely includes being mentally and emotionally prepared. There is an old saying in coaching, ‘Any coach can get things done right, but the great coaches get the right things done.’ Being prepared allows you to get the right thing done, not just doing things right. Frank Broyles Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it. Lou Holtz Show me a good and gracious loser, and I’ll show you a failure. Knute Rockne Losers assemble in little groups and bitch about the coaches and the system and other players in other little groups. Winners assemble as a team. Bill Parcells After you retire, there’s only one big event left, and I ain’t ready for that. Bobby Bowden Coach Bowden always used to say at Florida State, 'If you don't like the job you're in, and you want a better one, apply enthusiasm to the one you have.' A lot of times people want to bitch about the job they got. They want this other job. In the meantime, they're not going to do a very good job where they are. When people see you doing a good job, you get a chance to move up. Mark Richt It's my thing that you look forward, you don't look back. History doesn't have any relevance in terms of what you do and you don't do. Now is what counts. Nick Saban I value time. To be late for anything is one of the most disrespectful things you can do to somebody else. Sylvester Croom We want them to walk into a room with the right look. We tell them, you have seven seconds to make a first impression on someone. That's all you've got. So.we want you to pull your pants up. We want you to take your earrings out. We want you to take your hats off. We want you to understand that we're trying to prepare you for whatever you do after you leave Auburn. Gene Chizik People who want to achieve and aspire to be very good in their profession don't mind the way we do things. It's not normal to want to be as good as you can be. It's normal to be average. ... When you're in a position of leadership, you will ask somebody in the organization, … to do something that they would probably choose not to do, and sometimes you have to demand that they do it. That's a part of making decisions. Nick Saban If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals. Lou Holtz The minds of creative people have no limits. NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue That's the paradox of success. The moment you stop to enjoy it, you are in trouble. You have to keep moving forward. It's not what you have done that's important. It's where you are going. Nick Saban You just got up every day and you went about what you did and you did the best you could do, and it didn't matter what was going sideways or what was going up. You could be riding high or you could be low. But you'd better go out there and persevere. Paul Brown's wisdom as relayed by son and Cincinatti GM Mike Brown You cannot ever quit on yourself. That's when you lose it. If you're going to quit now, you're going to quit a lot more important things later on. Rudy Ruettiger, Notre Dame walkon If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better. Lou Holtz If you look at it as an opportunity to start or are you just struggling to get by? I'm not saying it's either way, but when you have an opportunity like that, you should have a positive attitude about taking advantage of it. Nick Saban Always remember, Goliath was a 40-point favorite over David. Shug Jordan I’ve found that prayers work best when you have big players. Knute Rockne Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones. Darrell Royal I want my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not a game. Bear Bryant Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired. Lou Holtz 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 Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. John Heisman My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor. Bowden Wyatt Sports is the toy department of human life. Howard Cossell, ABC commentator Everybody comes (to Texas) just like everybody goes to Florida. People go where the players are. Ken Hatfield Football is not a contact sport-it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. Duffy Daugherty Dance with the one who brung ya. Darrell Royal You learn more character on the 2-yard line than anywhere else in life. Paul Dietzel A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you. Lou Holtz I had a lifetime contract, but the administration declared me dead. Frank Howard If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education. Murray Warmath I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms — Truman’s and Eisenhower’s. Alex Karras Everybody likes to play at home, and we're no exception, ... I guarantee you we are anxious to play at home one time this year and see what it looks and feels like. Ken Hatfield Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated. Lou Holtz You have to decide: Do you want to make things happen or do you want to watch things happen? It's been my experience that most of the people who watch things happen are the ones who are usually wondering what just happened. Peyton Manning He doesn’t only tell you what his principles are. He tells you a story that gives you an example of how he does it. You have confidence in his management ability and leadership ability ... I don’t consider myself an expert on football. I do consider myself a good judge of people and whether they’re ready for jobs. University of Miami President Donna Shalala on hiring Randy Shannon No one has ever drowned in sweat. Lou Holtz The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back you just have to be dumb. Knute Rockne Finish the task, focus in; complete the project; get it done. Charles Barkley Nothing good in life comes easy, You have to sacrifice. Nick Saban Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died. Frank Leahy There’s nothing that cleanses the soul like getting the hell kicked out of it. Woody Hayes The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. Lou Holtz We were ready. We kicked off well and covered the kickoffs extremely well. We got them behind the 24-yard line every time on kickoffs. We were ready, but their talent took off. Ken Hatfield It’s kind of hard to rally around a math class. Bear Bryant It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. Lou Holtz It's all in the details. You have to focus and take care of what's in front of you at that moment. If you don't, you're cheating yourself. Nick Saban I turned a great bunch of individuals into a team. I never took the individual out of the athlete. But I'd tell them, 'What about being a great individual on a good team? If you win as an individual and you're the only guy that wins, you can't enjoy it. If you win and everybody around you wins, then everybody is happy.' John McDonnell Three things can happen when you pass the ball, and two of them are bad. Lou Holtz A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall. Frank Leahy They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that’s real small pieces. Darrell Royal They whipped us like a tied up goat. Spike Dykes The measure of our season will be made not on what we’ve done but what we will do. Les Miles I could have been a Rhodes scholar, except for my grades. Duffy Daugherty When all is said and done, more is said than done. Lou Holtz Texas players naturally get fired up to play other Texas players. The Boises, the Fresnos, Hawaii - they didn't even know where Texas is. Ken Hatfield If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password: Roll, Tide, roll. Bear Bryant In Alabama, an atheist is someone who doesn’t believe in Bear Bryant. Wally Butts The team that improves the most from this point forward has every opportunity to be in the title game. Les Miles We didn't tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking. John McKay Copyright ©Ronald W. Sitton, 2009. 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