George Halas
Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.Collection: Work
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.Collection: Best
You can achieve only that which you will do.
Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.
If you live long enough, lots of nice things happen.
Find out what the other team wants to do. Then take it away from them.
Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game.
When they boo you, you know they mean you.
San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo.
At last, the newspapers discovered the Bears. I kept writing articles about upcoming games, and by reading the papers, I learned editors like superlatives. I blush when I think how many times I wrote that the next game was going to be the most difficult of the season or how a new player was the fastest man in the West.
Nobody who has ever given his best has regretted it.Collection: Given
At least 80 percent of the success of the football team is determined by the fight and spirit that they put into their play.Collection: Football
Nobody whoever gave their best ever regretted it.Collection: Best Ever
You might reduce Lombardi's coaching philosophy to a single sentence: In any game, you do the things you do best and you do them over and over and over.Collection: Teamwork
What makes a good coach? Complete dedication.Collection: Basketball