Quotes About Football Coaches

#1. Football coaches meet midfield after a game, but they don't always hug

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#2. Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.

Ice Cube

#3. My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.

Amy Klobuchar

#4. None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the football coaches do, or that our analysis should take precedence over the informed opinions of experts. I'm not saying that at all.

Bill James

#5. Football coaches don't have real problems.

Lou Holtz

#6. Great football coaches have the vision to see, the faith to believe, the courage to do - and 25 great players.

Marv Levy

#7. Our users are trapeze artists, high school football coaches - I got cornered by a couple of theoretical physicists who said Dropbox lets them collaborate across the world and share their experiments' results. They were raving about how it's driving their research.

Drew Houston

#8. No athletic director holds office longer than two losing football coaches.

Robert Zuppke

#9. All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.

Duffy Daugherty

#10. I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.

Roy Keane

#11. In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.

Danny McBride

#12. There is no free speech in football. Information is parsed by monosyllabic head coaches, who dictate who gets to speak to whom and when.

Jane Leavy

#13. I've cut my teeth as a coach with some great head coaches and some great co-workers and I have been very lucky to have learned a lot of football from all of the above.

Mike Tice

#14. Mourinho is the best coach in the history of football.

Mario Balotelli

#15. Chelsea's players, coaches and agents are now football's wealthiest millionaires. Surely the billions taken from the Russian people by an oligarch in questionable privatisations couldn't be better spent?

Simon Kuper

#16. There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.

Joe Namath

#17. I could run 200 yards at a stretch, I could duck between players, I felt free to make plays that suited me best. It wasn't like football then and basketball today, where coaches tell you what foot to put down.

Jim Brown

#18. There's a lot [of coaches], and I think in this profession, none of us invented this game, we got it from someone else, and if there's an idea, there's probably never been an original idea in football.

Chip Kelly

#19. It is important for coaches to mentor young people toward those things that are most important in life and aid them in creating their own order of priorities to live by.

George M. Gilbert

#20. No one coaches what to do after three seconds, after the quarterback's broken the pocket or he's been in the pocket for five, six seconds.

Robert Griffin III

#21. There's two kinds of coaches, them that's fired and them that's gonna be fired.

Bum Phillips

#22. Young guys should focus on maintaining their football position. Coaches always say the lowest guy wins. I'm a taller guy and a bigger guy, but because I'm always in a great football position is why I think I'm able to get away from guys still. It gives me a chance to recover.

Brandon Spikes

#23. Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.

Lou Holtz

#24. Coaches must take calculated risks all the time. One thing is to talk about what you plan to do and another is to prepare and then execute a plan toward change.

George M. Gilbert

#25. I know the coaches definitely trust me and my ability to throw the football.

Russell Wilson

#26. The coaches will offer a direction, a plan, routine, discipline and the players must develop the desire to work together accepting their roles as they learn in preparation for the season.

George M. Gilbert

#27. It is like football with coaches, like, 'We're only going to think about the next game.' It is really true, all you think is, 'Okay, we have to make a good next episode.'

Matt Stone

#28. It is more likely that coaches have players go down in games they are losing than games they are winning.

George M. Gilbert

#29. Athletes, coaches and parents today are increasingly aware of the danger of concussion, and this awareness influences decisions about buying new and reconditioned football helmets.

Tom Udall

#30. Some coaches spend their time trying to get an overview of all eleven defenders. I prefer to zero in on one guy at a time to get the right clue.

Sid Gillman

#31. Our coaches want to be a part of South Carolina football when they win it for the first time. When they win the division, when they win the SEC, win a major bowl game, etc. The opportunities to do it all for the first time here make it extra special.

Steve Spurrier

#32. I don't think you can explain why all these other sports and college basketball have a fair representation of African American coaches, but college football doesn't. You can dig and scramble and scratch, but at the end of the day I think it's just pure, old-fashioned racism.

Frank Deford

#33. In Missoula, Grizzly football exists in a realm apart, where there is a pervasive sense of entitlement. University of Montana fans, coaches, players, and their lawyers expect, and often receive, special dispensation.

Jon Krakauer

#34. If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay, and everything pro football stands for. Your also cheating the Maker who gave you the talent.

Vince Lombardi

#35. I always thought I could coach. I just thought people were poor judges of good coaches.

Bum Phillips