Bum Phillips
Bum Phillips
Oail Andrew "Bum" Phillipswas an American football coach at the high school, college and professional levels. He served as head coach in the National Football Leaguefor the Houston Oilers from 1975 to 1980 and the New Orleans Saints from 1981 to 1985. He was the father of NFL coach Wade Phillips...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth29 September 1923
CityOrange, TX
CountryUnited States of America
Bum Phillips quotes about
football blame failing
You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.
blow lips californians
Hear about the Californian terrorist that tried to blow up a bus? Burned his lips on the exhaust pipe. He can take his'n and beat your'n, then he can take your'n and beat his'n.
football two kind
There's two kinds of coaches, them that's fired and them that's gonna be fired.
player winning nfl
How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.
leadership basketball motivation
I'd rather have preparation than motivation. Everyone likes to play, but no one likes to practice.
two doe kind
Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.
mistake winning play
You don't win by making sensational plays; you win by not making mistakes.
leadership sports games
The film looks suspiciously like the game itself!
football player coaching
Coaching is not how much you know. It's how much you can get players to do.
football inspiring-football fear-none
Respect all. Fear none.
football boys moon
That boy could throw a ball through a car wash and not get it wet. (on Warren Moon)
football judging people
I always thought I could coach. I just thought people were poor judges of good coaches.
football fence-post dumb
Yeah, that test says he's dumb as a fence post, but when he hits he looks like Einstein to me.
loyalty successful organization
Loyalty, up and down the line. That's one quality an organization must have to be successful.