Chuck Noll
Chuck Noll
Charles Henry Nollwas a professional American football player, assistant coach and head coach. His sole head coaching position was for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football Leaguefrom 1969 to 1991. When Noll retired after 23 years, only three other head coaches in NFL history had longer tenures with one team...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth5 January 1932
CityCleveland, OH
CountryUnited States of America
Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.
The most interesting thing about this sport, at least to me, it the activity of preparation-any aspect of preparation for the games. The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.
Never make a major decision based solely on money.
Pressure is what you feel when you don't know what's going on.
Some citizens are so good that nothing a leader can do will make them better. Others are so incorrigible that nothing can be done to improve them. But the great bulk of the people go with the moral tide of the moment. The leader must help create that tide. Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.
Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.
Watch the film, not the stopwatch.
Champions do ordinary things better than everyone else.
The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.
A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time. Winning one week at a time. Never look back and never look ahead.
You can't make a great play until you first do it in practice.
I can't tell you how much you gain, how much progress you can make, by working together as a team, by helping one another. You get much more done that way. If there's anything the Steelers of the '70s epitomized, I think it was that teamwork.
Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong.