Occupation: Football Coach Birth: December 21, 1926 Death: January 22, 2012
Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things..
If I had to do it over again, I'd probably play the game the same way..
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good..
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital..
Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy..
Sport is a product of human culture. America seems to need football at this state of our social development. When you get ninety million people watch….
A hard-fought, well-fought, hairline-close game is as classical in sports as tragedy is in the theater. Victory is contained within defeat, and defea….
Don't just stand back and play the way you're coached. A great player must rise to the occasion and turn the game around on his own..
They ask me what I'd like written about me when I'm gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coa….
Failure is not getting beat. Failure is when you don't do a good job preparing..
My name, I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone..
What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence than anybody but th….
What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle..
Success and excellence are not the same. Excellence grows within a person, is largely within that person's control, and its meaning lasts. Success is….
The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner..
Today, you've got a decision to make. You're gonna get better or you're gonna get worse, but you're not gonna stay the same. Which will it be?.
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks..
When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality..
You can't have a great university without a great library..
We need people who influence their peers and who cannot be detoured from their convictions by peers who do not have the courage to have any convictio….
Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back..