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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.