Today, you've got a decision to make. You're gonna get better or you're gonna get worse, but you're not gonna stay the same. Which will it be?
Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.
Success and excellence are not the same. Excellence grows within a person, is largely within that person's control, and its meaning lasts. Success is measured externally, by comparison to others, is often outside our control, and is perishable.
Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Keep hustling, something good will happen.
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
A hard-fought, well-fought, hairline-close game is as classical in sports as tragedy is in the theater. Victory is contained within defeat, and defeat is contained within victory. That's the way it is in the best of games. What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle.
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
They ask me what I'd like written about me when I'm gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach.
When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
Failure is not getting beat. Failure is when you don't do a good job preparing.
We need people who influence their peers and who cannot be detoured from their convictions by peers who do not have the courage to have any convictions.
What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle.
You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.
The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.
My name, I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone.
Don't just stand back and play the way you're coached. A great player must rise to the occasion and turn the game around on his own.
What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence than anybody but their families. And, in a lot of cases, more than their families.
If I had to do it over again, I'd probably play the game the same way.
We play with enthusiasm and recklessness. We aren't afraid to lose. If we win, great; but win or lose, it is the competition that gives us pleasure.
You must relate athletic experiences to life.
Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.
Right now I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do, 'cause I don't want to sit around on my backside all day. If I'm gonna do that I'll be a newspaper reporter.
