John Engler Quotes

What I've learned is that if you really want to be successful at something, you'll find that you put the time in. You won't just ask somebody if it's a good idea, you'll go figure out if it's a good idea.

Good managers ensure good outcomes, but great leaders can deliver a vision by getting people to work together.

Over the years, I really focused on doing the best job I could, working hard, getting great results, and working with my teams.

I have to put my team in a good situation.

If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work.

Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.

I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

I definitely see myself as a leader. One of the ways I've been lucky enough to lead and likely to continue to lead is just my actions and the way that I approach the game and working hard and being a player that steps up in big-time situations when plays need to be made.

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

Get a good team and do what you think is right.

Don't wait for someone to tell you what to do. Develop an innovative solution and work as a team to make it happen.

I enjoy difficult tasks. What's hard is finding the people to do them and finding a team to actually enjoy success. That is the real challenge of success.

The most important thing is that you can make tough decisions, discipline people when you need to, but also create a spirit to get the ultimate thing you're aiming for, which is winning enough games.

You can have X's and O's, you can have talent, but if you don't have a vision, it won't work.

In any situation in order to excel and reach the pinnacle with a group of people, there have to be sacrifices.

As a leader, you have to have a vision that inspires people around you.

I've got a great team around me. They keep me working hard; they keep me focused.

In football, as in life, as in business, everything can be talked about and discussed.

I try not to look too far ahead. I'm more about living day to day and working hard. I think it's great to visualize a dream, but it's more important to make it come true with your efforts.

If the vision is not right and if the right group of players is not together, it doesn't come together.

There is a temptation to have shortcuts and not put in the time and the effort. I think you have to be willing to talk to people and sit sometimes around a table and listen to other people.

My game is getting better all the time. I'm consistently working hard, and I feel like I'm always doing the right things.

The best chance we have of being successful is to not slip up and keep working hard to get three points on the board.