Chuck Noll Quotations

Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.

Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what you're doing.

Everyone's job is important, but no one is indispensable.

One of the things you learn in football is that you're only as good as your last outing. I don't like to reflect on what we've done in the past. I'm not a very good storyteller, for one thing. I'd disappoint you. When it's time, I'll talk about the good old days. But it's a sign of old age, reveling in the past.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Mamas, don't let your sons grow up to be Cowboys... or Oilers.

Never make a major decision based solely on money.

The single most important thing we had in the Steelers of the '70s was the ability to work together.

The critics are always right. The only way you shut them up is by winning.

I tried to look around to see what I wanted to do. Football was something I knew the most about.

The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.

Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.

The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time. Winning one week at a time. Never look back and never look ahead.

It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.

I used to tell the players that professional football is a part-time profession. I used to tell them it gets you ready for your life's work.

I'm really not a celebrity; I'm just a teacher.

I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don't strive for it, because I don't think it's important whether I'm good copy or not. The two can go together, if that's your personality, but every person on this earth is unique.

In order to WIN the game, you must first not LOSE it.

As you gain experience, you mature as an individual, and along with that comes the confidence that you have the ability to solve problems.

The most interesting thing about this sport, at least to me, it the activity of preparation-any aspect of preparation for the games. The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.

Pressure is what you feel when you don't know what's going on.

Some citizens are so good that nothing a leader can do will make them better. Others are so incorrigible that nothing can be done to improve them. But the great bulk of the people go with the moral tide of the moment. The leader must help create that tide. Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.

Watch the film, not the stopwatch.

Champions do ordinary things better than everyone else.

You can't make a great play until you first do it in practice.

I can't tell you how much you gain, how much progress you can make, by working together as a team, by helping one another. You get much more done that way. If there's anything the Steelers of the '70s epitomized, I think it was that teamwork.

Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong.

Leaving the game plan is a sign of panic, and panic is not in our game plan.

If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out.

Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.

Good things come to those who hustle

On every team, there is a core group that sets the tone for everyone else. If the tone is positive, you have half the battle won. If it is negative, you are beaten before you ever walk on the field.

Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else.

said Blount after defeating the Rams. ''I think this is probably the best team ever assembled. They talk about the Vince Lombardi Era, but I think the Chuck Noll Era is even greater.