American Coach Quotations

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

There's nothing like being involved with a team that can go that distance.

Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.

You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'

At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrased in front of our friends.

The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

If everything had already been done, there would be nothing left for young people to accomplish. There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier.

Casey knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet.

Success - it's what you do with what you've got.

One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.

When the going gets tough, let the tough get going.

It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game.

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.

There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.

Three things can happen when you pass and two of 'em are bad.

I usually stick out my hand and hope he puts the ball in it. Except the one time I went out to take Early Wynn out. I stuck out my hand and he hit me right in the stomach with the ball.

It was a hole in one contest and I had a three.

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything that comes in second.

I think the world is run by 'C' students.

They say anything can happen in a short series. I just didn't expect it to be that short.

I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.

If you stay with this game long enough, the worm is bound to turn.

To some degree. I know I couldn't do it anymore.

He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.

One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

When they boo you, you know they mean you.

Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?

I do have some young coaches, but I don't really believe that is the biggest problem we have here.

You give us the pitching some of these clubs have and no one could touch us, but God has a way of not arranging that, because it's not as much fun.

If I were going to stay in coaching, I would have stayed right there because I was totally happy.

Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same ol' dog's rear end every day.

If you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done.

Sometimes you have to suck it up and call a number.

Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.

Yes, I now that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them.

The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.

If things came easy, then everybody would be great at what they did, let's face it.

He's not very fast, but maybe Elizabeth Taylor can't sing.

I don't want a player that's content with not playing... But we wanted to play the guys that got us here.

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

I used to care more about the score than I do now.

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

It isn't what you do, but how you do it.

Woody is a competitor. He wanted to go out on a positive note for next year. He couldn't wait to get out there, and I was anxious to see him out there. In the winter, what you remember is how you finish.

We met with him for two hours, and we talked about everything. He seldom laughed, that was one thing I noticed. He did not have much of a sense of humor. But he was a good fan of baseball, and he loved to talk about it.

Maybe we can create some problems and issues for teams by doing that.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it.

One man practicing sportsmanship is better than a hundred teaching it.

No one comes into our house and pushes us around.

No other league has had labor peace for so long. Tagliabue has managed to keep the two sides together, and they've kept playing.

If we're gonna win, we have to play up to and beyond our potential. We're capable of doing that.

I don't know the time frame exactly, but it's clear they're all going to want to start spending money again.

I coach by the scoreboard, ... If we are up or tied, I am going to be aggressive. If we are down three or four runs, I will shut it down.

I always came early an talked philosophies and game situations with Red. I don't even know if he was aware of what he was doing for me.

He is still a long ways from being smooth in what we anticipate will be a system that he'll take to and enjoy, ... It's going to take him a while, as it will everybody, especially a guy who's a lead guard in a situation like that. It takes some time.

I think in order to repeat, in will be an emotional ride and whether they can remain focused through a lengthy six weeks to the championship.

I think the pass to Hines was just a great call by Whiz.

I think the big thing in following a diet like this is some discipline in your life. You've got to be able to say no to certain things.

I think when it really hit me that I had to get out to keep the program from going down was after the Mississippi Southern game this year.

I think that in the near term the only threat to demand is some form of recession here in the United States.

I think that worldwide tenders are going to remain extremely difficult because of the influence of foreign governments, partners, etc.

Our stadium seats over 80,000, and we sell all of our tickets.

Photographers never have much incentive to show the world as it is.

Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.

Look at last year's tournament and see who did what.

I think his best basketball is in front of him,

I'm still totally involved. I watch most of the games on TV, I've done some consulting work for a number of teams, so I get to stay close to it.

The argument about the system is out there and that's probably good, ... We did what we could, impressing the people in the AP poll and the coaches who felt free to vote.

We just changed some of our packages so it gets to be seen more. Plus, everybody knows that this could be my last year here so everybody is kind of paying attention to everything.

You just have to come up with something, because there really, really is no differentiation between the blacks and the whites here and the browns. ... Nobody gets preference in that regard.

Will the industry outsource more? I think it depends on the client base.

You know where I stand on that. Could I have been any further away from the play?

We'd like to see him more aggressive attacking the strike zone and being committed to what he's doing. He had a lot of deep counts and a lot of misses off the plate. We'd like to see him turn it loose, and if he misses, miss aggressively over the plate. It's his approach and attitude. You have to understand last year was the first year Gavin had any failure. He has to get his mind straight and be aggressive.

When you have Ruben Patterson and Reggie Evans out there? When you don't know what play to run, just let them play? Let them go into the backyard, lower the fence and let the dogs go do it.

Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.

We all think that Andre is this veteran player, because he has played so many games in his first two seasons. We take for granted that he should be at another level, but he has to grow a little more.

We weren't prepared. We were living on an 11-0 season that meant absolutely nothing because you have to play the next one.

When it got to a certain point I think the fatigue factor went out the window, because everyone was playing on adrenaline. I know that Chris was exhausted.

This will result in wells that will make a substantial improvement in the recovery factor just because they are absolutely in the proper place within the reservoir for the purposes of drainage.

People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

So, we were able to throw, and run, the ball successfully, and play defense. And well, we won the conference six in my first seven years there.

They've become a very strong-willed team. Their defensive toughness is in evidence. They're more consistent on defense and in their rebounding. This is an adjustment in their style that they were playing. They were more of a free-flowing team and that has changed.

It's a shame anyone had to lose that. What a great rivalry.

For a long time, we've worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes. It's time to move on to the next stage.

The biggest concern I have is making sure we understand that we aren't going to pick up where we left off.

The best careers advice to give to the young is 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.'

It's been kind of hectic in some ways because you're here, there and everywhere trying to cram as many activities in as you can in a short period of time. But I think the closer you get to the actual event, the more it hits home with what's real about it opposed to in the beginning it's just an idea, just a thought.

I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

I want to go home while it's quiet around there and get my mail out the first thing. Then I'll help them in recruiting if I can.

I know what I have to do and I plan to do it. It's a good time to get it done and get it behind me. It's treatable, so why not treat it now? My family will give me comfort but I have to do this alone.

If the play goes bad, it was a bad call - even though it might have been a pretty good call. That's just the way it is, and we accept it and move on.

I have to deal with everybody that is here in a team setting and so when he is here in a team setting, we will deal with it.