Dick Vermeil
Dick Vermeil
Richard Albert "Dick" Vermeilis a former American head coach for the National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles, St. Louis Ramsand Kansas City Chiefs. He is in the Sid Gillman coaching tree and has coached at every level; Vermeil owns the distinction of being named “Coach of the Year” on four levels: High School, Junior College, NCAA Division I and Professional Football...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth30 October 1936
CityCalistoga, CA
hobbies
My hobby is my work. I love it so much, it is not work.
believe winning people
When you believe in yourself and the people you surround yourself with, you will win something really big someday.
inspirational believe thinking
I don't even think you know how great you really are. I believe in you.
motivational-sports inspirational-sports hurt
If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.
football miss player
We're going to miss him. He's more than a football player for this organization.
came dad door found knocked office upstairs walking
When he found out his dad was located, he came upstairs to my office, knocked on the door and came walking in (and said), 'Coach, they found my dad,' ... He was real excited, and relieved.
control controlled situation
We're realistic. But I'm not going to say we're not going to be (in the playoffs). The only thing I'm going to do is try to control the things that we have control of. If we'd controlled it better earlier, we wouldn't be in the situation we're in.
ballgame coming hard hit hold knew onto pass problems solved time
We knew we were going to have some problems with pass protection. We knew that coming in. But, obviously, we didn't get it solved during the ballgame and Trent got hit too many times. We had a hard time getting the ball downfield because he couldn't hold onto the ball long enough.
challenge coached key played
I think the key really, is that they played so hard. They played so determined. Our challenge was: what do you do when you have to. There are some teams-and I've coached them-when you have to get it done, you didn't get it done.
defensive football games good played prove seems teams
To me, there seems to be more good defensive football teams right now. I can't prove it, but it seems that way. . . . And there are more games being played on defense.
against gets good intense players practice realize study until
You don't realize how intense it gets until you study the practice tapes, ... There were some unbelievable collisions with good players against good players.
anybody kids knows likely name nobody normally players problem
We know our players so well, especially the kids that have been around. Least likely normally to have a problem is the kicker. It isn't always their fault, but automatically it's their name because nobody else knows anybody else that was involved.
both darn either everybody fresh ideal knows late plan
We'll have a plan each week. Everybody knows it's not ideal for either guy, but they were both pretty darn fresh late in the game. It was impressive.
backup larry prepared role
We'll know (Saturday) morning, see where he is. Could be a backup role or anything like that. Right now, Larry (Johnson) is prepared to play.