Coaching Principles Quotes

Coaching really is an individual philosophy.

All really successful coaches have a system.

The one thing that saved me is that in 17 years of coaching I never had an NCAA investigator talk to one of my players. I lost games, but I lost the right way.

When I was a young coach, there were people like Chuck Noll, Chuck Knox and Tom Landry who were there for me.

If you want to coach you have three rules to follow to win. One, surround yourself with people who can't live without football. I've had a lot of them. Two, be able to recognize winners. They come in all forms. And, three, have a plan for everything. A plan for practice, a plan for the game. A plan for being ahead, and a plan for being behind 20-0 at half, with your quarterback hurt and the phones dead, with it raining cats and dogs and no rain gear because the equipment man left it at home.

When I coached guys that I knew would be good coaches, I kind of push them.

I'm privileged to have followed Sir Matt because all you have to do is to try and maintain the standards that he set so many years ago.

Every coach has a different style and approach.