A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose man enjoyment is winning.
A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.
In 1969, we decided we had to do certain things technically to win, and we decided to do them then, even though we knew some of the personnel couldn't do it. In other words, instead of adapting the system to the players, we just installed our system. Then we set out to fill our team through the draft.
Mamas, don't let your sons grow up to be Cowboys... or Oilers.
One of the things you learn in football is that you're only as good as your last outing. I don't like to reflect on what we've done in the past. I'm not a very good storyteller, for one thing. I'd disappoint you. When it's time, I'll talk about the good old days. But it's a sign of old age, reveling in the past.
We were really lucky and fortunate in the '70s because we got a group of not only good football players but good people... a group that wanted to be together and wanted to be the best.
It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.
I used to tell the players that professional football is a part-time profession. I used to tell them it gets you ready for your life's work.
It would have been great to have had 10 victories and been in the playoffs and have gone all the way and then said, 'Goodbye,' but it didn't work out that way.
Respectability? Who wants to be respectable? That's spoken like a true loser.
Right now, you hear about teamwork, and it's defined as 50-50, and that is a falsehood. There's no such thing as 50-50. You know, you do whatever you have to do as part of the team.
