Best Marv Levy Quotes

#1. A failure becomes just one time at bat if you refuse to let it defeat you.

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#2. If you have everything prepared, the rest will take care of itself.

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#3. If I had coached in high school for 60 years, I would have loved it. Getting to the top was not a goal. I welcomed the opportunities, but I just believed do the best doggone job you can, and good things will happen.

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#4. I don't know if there ever has been anyone in the NFL who plays his position as well as Steve Tasker.

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#5. I never have suspected or sensed a whiff of cheating in any of our Super Bowls.

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#6. I don't remember Bill Walsh being old. I remember young Bill Walsh. He wasn't gray-haired, and neither was I when we first met. His legacy will live on. Bill Walsh's name and his accomplishments will be remembered and revered so long as the great game of football is played.

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#7. I did a lot of studying of great writers. I read that Hemingway rewrote 'The Sun Also Rises' 39 times.

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#8. Age is inevitable. Aging isn't.

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#9. Our goal is to develop our team, to earn what we get, to learn, to develop unselfish attitudes. If we achieve that, the results is that we'll win.

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#10. If you don't change with the times, the times are going to change you.

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#11. Did I ever think at the time, when I was with the Alouettes and the Chicago Blitz, that I would be head-coaching a team in the Super Bowl? It would be hard to believe. Is it a dream come true? Yes.

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#12. If you say you plan to retire in two or three years, you've already retired.

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#13. There will be many failures sprinkled among the successes you enjoy.

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#14. If you start thinking of the Super Bowl championship as your motivation, you are going to miss the trees for the forest or the forest for the trees. I never could understand that one.

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#15. I got some very good advice once. That was: You're not talking to a reporter, you're talking to the public. We didn't hide things. They are a little more guarded now.

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#16. I was enamored with Charles Dickens as a kid, and his names blew me away.

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#17. The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them.

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#18. I'm hoping to get started on a new novel.

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#19. Systems don't win, players do.

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#20. Every profession has changed. Journalism has changed. Medicine has changed. Technology has changed and it evolves. The same is true of football. Free agency has now allowed teams to be a dynasty as they have been before. It is not a great thing for the fans, but it is a good thing for the players.

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#21. I consider myself a Chicagoan, and if anybody else does, that gratifies me.

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#22. I'm sure there were concussions galore back when we played, but the doctors would just say, 'Shake it off,' or something like that ... or 'Come on, you got to be tough ... get back in there.' I see so many guys who played pro football in their 50s now who are so debilitated from having played it.

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#23. I have stayed active. I do keep moving. But I should start swimming more. Great exercise.

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#24. What you do should speak so loudly that no one will hear what you say.

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#25. What it takes to win is simple, it's not easy.

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#26. When it's too hard for them, it's just right for us.

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#27. When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.

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#28. I exercise, walk a lot, and break into the occasional trot. I also lift weights three days a week, and I like to read about what makes a good diet. Overall, I do follow a healthy lifestyle.

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#29. I've always been entranced by writing.

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#30. When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me.

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#31. A good education prepares you well for anything.

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#32. If you believe you are doing a good job in which you enjoy and like, then don't resign regardless of the pressures.

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