Top 67 Noll Quotes
#1. I'm probably the only guy in the country who can say he's worked under Chuck Noll and Don Shula.
Joe Greene
#2. Coach Noll had always told me, Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong.
Tony Dungy
#3. It wasn't the footman she was afraid of - it was those he was parroting. Alfie was the sort of dim-noll who never had his own thoughts but borrowed other people's.
Ellen Renner
#4. Chuck Noll is building one hell of a football team up in Pittsburgh.
Vince Lombardi
#5. Pittsburgh was a great team. Coach Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, L.C. Greenwood and all those guys did a great job. That's the team that kept us from winning two Super Bowls. It was a great rivalry.
Earl Campbell
#6. When I was a young coach, there were people like Chuck Noll, Chuck Knox and Tom Landry who were there for me.
Bill Parcells
#7. I learned from Chuck Noll in Pittsburgh that speed and explosiveness on defense is the way to build a team. Both are difficult for your opponent to assimilate in practice and then in games it is even harder to match.
Tony Dungy
#8. The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time. Winning one week at a time. Never look back and never look ahead.
Chuck Noll
#9. The single most important thing we had in the Steelers of the '70s was the ability to work together.
Chuck Noll
#10. Watch the film, not the stopwatch.
Chuck Noll
#11. A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
Chuck Noll
#12. Americans claimed to be following a higher law, even when this higher law only turned out to be a personal preference.
Mark A. Noll
#13. Leaving the game plan is a sign of panic, and panic is not in our game plan.
Chuck Noll
#14. The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.
Mark A. Noll
#15. Dogmatic kind of biblical literalism that gained increasing strength among evangelicals toward the end of the nineteenth century was reduced space for academic debate, intellectual experimentation, and nuanced discrimination between shades of opinion.
Mark A. Noll
#16. Losing has nothing to do with geography.
Chuck Noll
#18. Since the dawn of time, warring combatants have regularly reached for what support they could find to nerve their own side for battle.
Mark A. Noll
#19. I was brought up in a Christian environment where, because God had to be given pre-eminence, nothing else was allowed to be important. I have broken through to the position that because God exists, everything has significance.360
Mark A. Noll
#20. I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don't strive for it, because I don't think it's important whether I'm good copy or not. The two can go together, if that's your personality, but every person on this earth is unique.
Chuck Noll
#21. Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else.
Chuck Noll
#22. I tried to look around to see what I wanted to do. Football was something I knew the most about.
Chuck Noll
#23. I didn't want to be like a punch-drunk fighter, going around and reliving the big moment ...
Greg Noll
#24. In i86o the income of the nation's churches and religious voluntary societies came quite close to matching the total receipts of the federal government. Today the ratio of annual federal income to annual religion-related giving is about twenty-five to one.
Mark A. Noll
#25. Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.
Chuck Noll
#26. Evangelicals do not, characteristically, look to the intellectual life as an arena in which to glorify God because, at least in America, our history has been pragmatic, populist, charismatic, and technological more than intellectual.
Mark A. Noll
#27. Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.
Chuck Noll
#28. You can never say all the tricks have been done. Someone always shows you something you didn't know. Every year you think, 'Gee, I didn't think you could do that'.
Landon Curt Noll
#29. You can't make a great play until you first do it in practice.
Chuck Noll
#30. I used to tell the players that professional football is a part-time profession. I used to tell them it gets you ready for your life's work.
Chuck Noll
#31. Early America does not deserve to be considered uniquely, distinctly or even predominantly Christian ... There is no lost Golden Age to which American Christians may return.
Mark Noll
#32. As you gain experience, you mature as an individual, and along with that comes the confidence that you have the ability to solve problems.
Chuck Noll
#33. I'd love to say something heroic. I'd love to say we made history. But basically it was a bunch of guys parked around the Bay there, and somebody grabbed a board and went surfing, and it looked so good the rest of us guys said, 'Hey, we got to get in on this.'
Greg Noll
#34. It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.
Chuck Noll
#35. Republicanism was easier to evolve than to define.
Mark A. Noll
#36. Champions do ordinary things better than everyone else.
Chuck Noll
#37. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.
Grace Noll Crowell
#38. The author finds any freaking, and remarkably objective, way to estimate religion's influence on American society before the Civil War. The population closely aligned with evangelical sympathies was three or four times the size of the voting population in 1860
Mark A. Noll
#39. Evangelicals have been distinctive in featuring the crisis conversion. But what is essential to Christianity is the whole life committed to God, from the beginning of faith until death.
Mark A. Noll
#40. An older, Puritan approach to Scripture tended to prevail in the American South, where the Bible was regarded as a set of definite, positive laws
Mark A. Noll
#41. It was no coincidence that the biblical defense of slavery remained strongest in the United States, a place where democratic, antitraditional, and individualistic religion was also strongest.
Mark A. Noll
#42. Thompson's message was straightforward: if God through divine revelation so clearly sanctioned slavery, and even the trade in "strangers," how could genuine Christians attack modern slavery, or even the slave trade, as an evil?
Mark A. Noll
#43. In order to WIN the game, you must first not LOSE it.
Chuck Noll
#44. The critics are always right. The only way you shut them up is by winning.
Chuck Noll
#45. Never make a major decision based solely on money.
Chuck Noll
#46. I'm really not a celebrity; I'm just a teacher.
Chuck Noll
#47. I can't tell you how much you gain, how much progress you can make, by working together as a team, by helping one another. You get much more done that way. If there's anything the Steelers of the '70s epitomized, I think it was that teamwork.
Chuck Noll
#48. Everyone's job is important, but no one is indispensable.
Chuck Noll
#49. To see in the past that very godly people were able to maintain bizarre interpretations of Scripture should be a caution for us all.
Mark A. Noll
#50. On every team, there is a core group that sets the tone for everyone else. If the tone is positive, you have half the battle won. If it is negative, you are beaten before you ever walk on the field.
Chuck Noll
#51. Let me come in when you are weeping, friend, and let me take your hand. I, who have known a sorrow such as yours, can understand.
Grace Noll Crowell
#52. Home may be near, Home may be far - But it is anywhere love And a few plain household treasures are.
Grace Noll Crowell
#53. To put it most simply, the evangelical ethos is activistic, populist, pragmatic, and utilitarian. It allows little space for broader or deeper intellectual effort because it is dominated by the urgencies of the moment.
Mark A. Noll
#54. My biggest fear isn't being a failure as an author but being a failure at being me.
Christina Noll
#55. Mamas, don't let your sons grow up to be Cowboys ... or Oilers.
Chuck Noll
#56. We grew up quickly, surrounded by guys eighteen and older, in their prime. They lived to surf, drink, raise hell and score heavily with women. I saw these guys going up and down the coast on surf trips, drinking and bagging girls, and all I could think of was 'What a neat life!'
Greg Noll
#57. The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.
Chuck Noll
#58. Cultivating the mind was absolutely essential, Luther held, because people needed to understand both the word of Scripture and the nature of the world in which the word would take root.
Mark A. Noll
#59. Smith, for example, claimed that if Americans defended slavery on the basis of the Old Testament, they should also defend practices like polygamy and the complete annihilation of defeated armies that are also prescribed in the Old Testament
Mark A. Noll
#60. It took me longer to get through this site, than to get outside at Waimea.
Greg Noll
#61. Good things come to those who hustle
Chuck Noll
#62. If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out.
Chuck Noll
#63. Whatever else be lost among the years, Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing: Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears, Let us hold close one day, remembering Its poignant meaning for the hearts of men. Let us get back our childlike faith again.
Grace Noll Crowell
#64. The Book that made the nation was destroying the nation; the nation that had taken to the Book was rescued not by the Book but by the force of arms.
Mark A. Noll
#65. Pressure is what you feel when you don't know what's going on.
Chuck Noll
#66. The crisis created by an inability to distinguish the Bible on race from the Bible on slavery meant that when the Civil War was over and slavery was abolished, systemic racism continued unchecked as the great moral anomaly in a supposedly Christian America.
Mark A. Noll
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