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Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.

I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.

Let's win one for the Gipper.

Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.

If the coach insists upon hard play, but clean play, the team will do likewise.

Show me a good and gracious loser and I will show you a failure.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

Leaders are like eagles ... they don't flock. You'll find them one at a time.

If we're a hit, let 'em say anything they want.

No star playing, just football.

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.

Yes, I now that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them.

I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.

I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way.

Courage means being afraid to do something, but still doing it.

It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.

When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something.

A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.

There is no need for me continuing unless I'm able to improve.

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose.

One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.

Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.

Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.

Win one for the Gipper.

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

There is not economy in getting cheap service or equipment. Buy the best and cry only once.

The secret of winning is working more as a team, less as individuals.

On the road we're somebody else's guests and we play in a way that they're
not going to forget we visited them.

At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrased in front of our friends.

You know, I've been attending so many banquets that I know what they're going to serve before I get there.

If winning isn't everything why bother to keep the score?

The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.

Never tell 'em how many lettermen you've got coming back. Tell 'em how many you lost.