Bill McCartney
Bill McCartney
William Paul McCartneyis a former American football player and coach and the founder of the Promise Keepers men's ministry. He was the head football coach at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1982 to 1994, where he compiled a record of 93–55–5 and won three consecutive Big Eight Conference titles between 1989 and 1991. McCartney's 1990 team was crowned as national champions by the Associated Press, splitting the title with the Georgia Tech team that topped the final Coaches' Poll...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth20 August 1940
CountryUnited States of America
If you want to take the meaning of the word integrity and reduce it to its simplest terms, you'd conclude that a man of integrity is a promise keeper. When he gives you his word. You can take it to the bank. His word is good.
Rom. 8:29 tells us what our purpose is - to conform to the image of Jesus Christ, and that singularly helps me keep a focus. That's really what I'm called to do, and I should be gradually growing and changing. He should be increasing, and I should be decreasing.
Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness.
We have not come to compete with one another. We have come to complete one another.
All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.
I've found the smartest thing I could do was stay off the radar. I know just enough to be dangerous, meaning, if you express your opinions, people are going to take a side on it. I don't want to do that. I don't want to be a lightning rod, but I want to be supportive. That's the fine line I walk.
They're in bad shape. It makes you feel good doing a little bit to give back,
Offensive linemen are the guys on the team who are the most selfless, ... Those are the types of guys who make great coaches. Miles came out of that environment -- extremely well coached, well disciplined. When you're coaching, you look for that kind of guy.