George Halas
George Halas
George Stanley Halas, Sr., nicknamed "Papa Bear" and "Mr. Everything", was a player, coach, owner, and pioneer in professional American football. He was the iconic founder and owner of the National Football League's Chicago Bears. He was also lesser known as an inventor, jurist, radio producer, philanthropist, philatelist, and Major League Baseball player. Most notably, he is considered one of the original co-founders of the National Football Leaguein 1920...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth2 February 1895
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
George Halas quotes about
When they boo you, you know they mean you.
Taylor, we've run out of timeouts. Go in there and get hurt.
If you live long enough, lots of nice things happen.
San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo.
Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
What makes a good coach? Complete dedication.
You can achieve only that which you will do.
You might reduce Lombardi's coaching philosophy to a single sentence: In any game, you do the things you do best and you do them over and over and over.
Nobody whoever gave their best ever regretted it.
Find out what the other team wants to do. Then take it away from them.
Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game.
Nobody who has ever given his best has regretted it.
At least 80 percent of the success of the football team is determined by the fight and spirit that they put into their play.
Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.