"Coaches are very important. Hell, you can get the players off the back of a Wheaties box."
"There are two types of coaches. Them that have just been fired and them that are going to be fired."
"If I have to tell a guy "do it" because I'm the head coach, then there's a little bit of doubt whether I am or not."
"Two kinds of football players ain't worth a damn. The only one that never does what he's told and the other that never does anything except what he's told."
"He can take his'n and beat your'n or he can take your'n and beat his'n" - referring to former Dolphins coach Don Shula.
"My idea of discipline is not making guys do something, it's getting them to do it. There's a difference between bitching and coaching."
"There are a multitude of offensive sets but you can't run all of them. You must narrow them down to what you can do best and what fits your people best. The quickest way to learn that is coaching in high school."
"Show me an emotional coach on the sidelines and I'll show you a team that will mirror everything he does."
"Everyone likes to play and no one likes to practice."
"I teach them to get along with their fellow man - the other players. If you don't teach that in coaching, then you're not coaching."
"Everyone will forget you when you leave the game and all you will have left are the things it has taught you - to sacrifice, to work hard."
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