Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do but to achieve what they want to achieve.

...even after you've just won the Super Bowl -- especially after you've just won the Super Bowl -- there's always next year. If Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing, then the only thing is nothing -- emptiness, the nightmare of life without ultimate meaning.

A vital team characteristic is the ability to overcome adversity. Any team acquires experience and endurance as it learns to fight back. This in turn builds the kind of character which seldom crumbles at a time of crisis or testing.

A team that has character doesn't need stimulation.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be