Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Ditka

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

Bear Bryant

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.

Don Baylor

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

Vince Lombardi

If you are not fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

Brad Childress

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.

Don Baylor

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.

Steve Spurrier

The first few years, throwing was very easy. The defenses weren't geared up for it. Then later the defenses got a lot better toward stooping the pass.

Pete Carroll

You can't get a big enough game for us.

Don Shula

And my rookie contract, my first rookie contract was for $5,000.

Bill Cowher

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

Bear Bryant

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.

Larry Bird

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

Lou Holtz

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

John Wooden

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

Mike Tice

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

Chuck Daly

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

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

Dusty Baker

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.

Joe Gibbs

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

Jim Valvano

The very first time you stood in the locker room to give a pep talk. That's a special place, the locker room, for a coach to give a talk.

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Knute Rockne

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

Knute Rockne

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

Steve Spurrier

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

Knute Rockne

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

Knute Rockne

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

Tommy Lasorda

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.

John Wooden

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but what you should have accomplished with your ability.

George Halas

When they boo you, you know they mean you.

Maurice Cheeks

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.

Maurice Cheeks

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.

The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.

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