Chuck Knox
Chuck Knox
Charles Robert Knoxis a former American football coach at the high school, collegiate and professional levels. He is best remembered as head coach of three National Football Leagueteams, the Los Angeles Rams, Seattle Seahawks, and Buffalo Bills...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth27 April 1932
fate hands tough-times
Don't bemoan your fate. Everybody's not going to be dealt the same hand. Everybody's going to go through tough times.
felt
Oh, it was tough. They probably felt unrewarded, to see everything being trucked down the highway.
dad gone handle ireland knew mills mom people relations scottish worked
My dad had come from Ireland and worked in the mills. My mom was Scottish and worked as a domestic, ... I didn't have any relations who had ever gone to college. I knew I could handle the academics, but the mills were working. People were making a lot of money.
motivational should-have should
If you could have won, you should have.
football winning player
Football players win football games.
sports common conservative
Conservative coaches have one thing in common; they are unemployed.
leadership sports believe
One of the most important qualities for any young athlete is the ability to believe in oneself. If you have confidence in yourself, in your teammates and your coach, you will succeed.
mean reality play
You can concede to an opponent something he hasn't earned. It's one thing to underestimate an opponent. But maybe the worst thing is to overestimate. You always play your strengths. But that doesn't mean you become predictable.
wrestling games sound
Repeated actions are stored as habits. If the repeated actions aren't fundamentally sound, then what comes out in a game can't be sound. What comes out will be bad habits.
cliche originals
Most of my cliches aren't original.
thinking games nfl
There were a lot of big games. But I think one of the biggest was one that will go down as one of the biggest upsets in playoff history. We were 15-point underdogs going into Miami and upset them. That was a big one.
practice nfl perfect
Remember your six P's - Perfect Practice Prevents Piss Poor Performance.
home want mills
I knew I could make a good living working in the mills, ... I decided I didn't want to fuss with the rest of it, so I hitch-hiked back home.
sports believe commitment
Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident.