Top 32 Sid Gillman Quotes
#1. We are being ruined by the best efforts of people who are doing the wrong thing.
W. Edwards Deming
#2. That was part of coaching: to teach your receivers how to get free.
Sid Gillman
#3. I tape every game I can get my hands on. Every game that's on TV, I tape it. My daughter, Terry Hill, lives in Eureka, and she has a satellite dish, so she tapes what I can't get. I try to keep up with what everybody is doing, so if the phone rings, I'll be ready.
Sid Gillman
#4. You put a real tough tight end with good hands in the hash area, and there won't be anyone who can cover him. Then you really control the passing game.
Sid Gillman
#5. I go back to Francis Schmidt. Francis Schmidt was the Ohio State coach who hired me.
Sid Gillman
#6. God bless those runners because they get you the first down, give you ball control and keep your defense off the field. But if you want to ring the cash register, you have to pass.
Sid Gillman
#8. Hell, I live like I did when I was 35. I don't believe in retirement groups because I don't believe in retirement. How long can I keep coaching? How about forever? I'll never walk off the field.
Sid Gillman
#9. 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
#10. I have a message for the youth of America. The next time somebody promises you a lifetime contract, say, 'Thank you. But would you mind putting that in writing?'
Sid Gillman
#11. I've lost count of all my assistant coaches who have been made head coaches.
Sid Gillman
#12. I worked under Francis Schmidt, and he was the biggest influence on my coaching career.
Sid Gillman
#13. I always felt before Paul Brown, coaches just rolled the ball out onto the field.
Sid Gillman
#16. Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination,
Antonin Artaud
#17. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. Just on the other side of creativity is the nuthouse - and I often notice people looking at me strangely when I am talking out loud, but there is no other way.
Jeanette Winterson
#19. Attitude is the whole thing in football. Every team has the talent and the coaching. Motivation makes the difference. The teams that win stay healthy and interested.
Sid Gillman
#20. It disturbs me to see a football coach fired.
Sid Gillman
#21. But I've never despised myself so much as I did that day - she was so small and - so fierce, so beautiful, it was like breaking a hawk's wings, stopping up a clear spring with bricks - digging up roses to make space to park your tank. Pointless and ugly.
Elizabeth Wein
#22. I enjoyed coaching so much that I just have to stay with it. Don Coryell - I love him, and I think he was a great coach - but I hear he's going to build a house on some island. He's going to divorce himself from football, and that's a mystery to me.
Sid Gillman
#23. One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.
Frank Herbert
#24. Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.
William Osler
#25. The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
#27. I learned from everybody whose staff I was on. You always learn something.
Sid Gillman
#28. Everything I was doing was like this chess game - full of second guesses, indecision, waiting.
Heather Demetrios
#29. The first light-field camera array I saw at Stanford had a bunch of applications, like to do special effects like you see in 'The Matrix,' where you spin the camera around in frozen motion. It took up an entire room.
Ren Ng
#30. All I know is that when you look over at the coaches on the other sideline, and all you see are guys who either coached with you or played for you, then you know it's time to get out.
Sid Gillman
#31. Critics have told me I've ruined the lives of 50 million young people. I can't be certain of this, since only about 10 million have ever come back to thank me.
Timothy Leary
#32. There was no better end than Lance Alworth and no better lineman than Ron Mix. Those are Hall of Fame guys. There was no better guard than Walt Sweeney and no better pair of running backs than Keith Lincoln and Paul Lowe.
Sid Gillman
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