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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If I flop, let 'em pan me.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

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

Win or lose, do it fairly.

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.

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.

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

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

It's my show.

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

Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.

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

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

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

Let's win one for the Gipper.

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

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.

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

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

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

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

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.

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

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it.

A coachs greatest asset is his sense of responsibility the reliance placed on him by his players.

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

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

I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective.

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

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

There's a picture of the real Coach Gary Gaines in the book and he's sitting in the locker room after a game, and he just looks so much like Billy Bob, that we went to him.

I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.

I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.

It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.

The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.

So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team.

My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.

Nobody gives a crap about hockey down here - nobody. I coach kids' hockey down here and you can start to see the disinterest in the game here with the kids.

But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it.

I'm fortunate now that I coach at Duke University and we've won a lot. I have some kids who haven't failed that much. But when they get to college, they're going to fail some time. That's a thing that I can help them the most with.