Quotes on Nfl

The culture precedes positive results. It doesn't get tacked on as an afterthought on your way to the victory stand. Champions behave like champions before they're champions: they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners.

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

What's important is not the uniform or the number, and it's not what team you play for or whether anyone else sees your value; it's who you are on the inside. And when you're in Christ, that's never going to change.

I've always tried to coach people the way I would like to be coached; positively and encouragingly rather than with criticism and fear ... I've tried to be as fair as possible.

Pain prompts us to change behavior that is destructive to ourselves or to others. Pain can be a highly effective instructor.

I hired top-notch people, trusted them to do their jobs, and then came to grips with the fact that I wouldn't be coaching as much.

Winning would create greater potential for change than talk alone.

When it's over, it's over is part of football's greatest appeal to me. When a game ends, win or lose, it's time to prepare for the next one.

At the end of the day, it's not about starting a game in the NFL, winning a Super Bowl, or getting to the Hall of Fame. It's about representing yourself in a way that represents your faith.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.

If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn't doing a very good job.

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

A champion is simply someone who did not give up when he wanted to.

First become a winner in life. Then it's easier to become a winner on the field.

Ever since I was a kid, I knew I could play in the NFL because I had a knack for the game. But I can't play this game forever. When I'm finished, maybe I'll become a motivational speaker, maybe a preacher. But children need to know that life may be hard, but you can always overcome.

Before I can embrace freedom, I should be aware of what duties I have.

You don't like to see your guys take the field without you because it makes you feel like, man, maybe they really don't need me out there, which is kind of humbling.

Maybe I'm just getting old, but I remember when your average NFL player would come to the sideline, spit out three bicuspids, Scotch-tape his humerus together and get back out there.

As a physician, I'm somewhat an advocate of patients. How come, before Mike Webster, no NFL player was told or knew that there was an intrinsic risk of brain damage from playing football?