Joe Paterno
Joe Paterno
Joseph Vincent "Joe" Paterno, sometimes referred to as "JoePa", was an American college football player, and later athletic director and coach. He was the head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions from 1966 to 2011. With 409 victories, Paterno was the most successful coach in NCAA FBS history. His career ended with his dismissal from the team in November, 2011 as a result of the Penn State child sex abuse scandal...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth21 December 1924
CountryUnited States of America
You're only as happy as your least happy child.
You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.
I still haven't gotten that little something out of my system that I'm still not a kid going to a football game. I'm excited.
We play with enthusiasm and recklessness. We aren't afraid to lose. If we win, great; but win or lose, it is the competition that gives us pleasure.
Everybody likes to win. It sure beats the devil out of losing.
Right now I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do, 'cause I don't want to sit around on my backside all day. If I'm gonna do that I'll be a newspaper reporter.
I had a great bunch of kids. They all hung with us. The coaching staff hung with us. And we played tough every game. If you've got kids that want to play and react to you, it's fun. I'm having a good time.
In hindsight, I wish I had done more.
SMU: 'It's unbelievable to think that kind of corruption came right from the top of the power structure. The NCAA did what it had to do' in canceling SMU's 1988 football season.
Don't just stand back and play the way you're coached. A great player must rise to the occasion and turn the game around on his own.
Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.
Success is best measured by the achiever.
Failure is not getting beat. Failure is when you don't do a good job preparing.