Chuck Knox Quotations

My dad had come from Ireland and worked in the mills. My mom was Scottish and worked as a domestic, ... I didn't have any relations who had ever gone to college. I knew I could handle the academics, but the mills were working. People were making a lot of money.

He has done a real good job, ... He has picked up the system, he's a very smart and instinctive player, and he brings some leadership qualities back there.

He's a wonderful, wonderful guy, ... And he made me realize what a college education would mean to me.

Our plane had been delayed for four hours in Seattle because they couldn't find the black box,

That was a great experience. We were a decided underdog in that game, and we came on and won it.

If you could have won, you should have.

Football players win football games.

Conservative coaches have one thing in common; they are unemployed.

One of the most important qualities for any young athlete is the ability to believe in oneself. If you have confidence in yourself, in your teammates and your coach, you will succeed.

You can concede to an opponent something he hasn't earned. It's one thing to underestimate an opponent. But maybe the worst thing is to overestimate. You always play your strengths. But that doesn't mean you become predictable.

Repeated actions are stored as habits. If the repeated actions aren't fundamentally sound, then what comes out in a game can't be sound. What comes out will be bad habits.

Most of my cliches aren't original.

There were a lot of big games. But I think one of the biggest was one that will go down as one of the biggest upsets in playoff history. We were 15-point underdogs going into Miami and upset them. That was a big one.

Remember your six P's - Perfect Practice Prevents Piss Poor Performance.

I knew I could make a good living working in the mills, ... I decided I didn't want to fuss with the rest of it, so I hitch-hiked back home.

Don't bemoan your fate. Everybody's not going to be dealt the same hand. Everybody's going to go through tough times.

Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident.

Winners bring reality up to their vision. Losers bring their vision down to reality.

Practice without improvement is meaningless.

They say the breaks even up in the long run, and the trick is to be a long-distance runner.

Winning and losing are both very temporary things. Having done one or the other, you move ahead. Gloating over a victory or sulking over a loss is a good way to stand still.

They've done a great job and I couldn't be happier for them. I'm happy for the team and the city. I'll be rooting hard.

Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.

It's a great honor for me and I appreciate everything the fans did, everything our players did, and I was equally appreciative of my wife of 53 years, Shirley, for her support,

It's a great honor for me, ... and I appreciate everything the fans did, everything the players did.

Oh, it was tough. They probably felt unrewarded, to see everything being trucked down the highway.