Words matter. These are the best Joe Gibbs Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If I keep God first in my life, if I keep my family and friends as second, and then I keep my occupation third, that’s when I’ve found success.
A winning effort begins with preparation.
Everybody needs a coach.
The further you go in life, the more you realize what you’re going to leave this Earth.
All of us that have teams want to pick the right people. I’ve thought a lot about that. In the NFL, we’ve got 13 scouts traveling the country. We’re trying to pick 22 year-olds coming out of college who will be successful in the NFL. It’s very hard to do. What I’ve learned is it’s always character first.
The key to being a good manager or a good entrepreneur is to pick the right people. Pick the right people, and they’ll make you look good.
I coached in Washington – and in Washington, you lose the ballgame, it’s a bad Monday, I just want to tell you that.
You and I are the players, God’s our head coach, and we’re all playing the biggest game of all.
If you’re on God’s team, you can’t lose.
I love coaching my grandkids, but I love working with my two sons. J.D. is the head coach, and I’m the assistant – you believe that? I missed so much of them growing up. I really messed up there. So I like working with J.D. and Coy. I’m trying not to do the same thing again. With J.D. and Coy, I missed so much.
People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.
I can’t remember if it was in the third grade in school, I was being told that two amoeba happened to hit in a muddy puddle of water two billion years ago, and I was an accident. I was the result. I wasn’t real smart, but I said, ‘I don’t like the sound of that.’
My mother and grandmother had me in church, and I was the kid that played in church. But pastor was telling me something totally different that there was a God. He knit me together in my mother’s womb. He made me special. He wanted to have a personal relationship with me.
This isn’t an easy lifestyle for a coach’s wife. The coach is the guy who stands up and hears everyone tell him how great he is. The wife is the one waiting at home alone while the coach is spending every night at the office.
I had a basketball net that my dad had put up outside. I went out there and dribbled all day long. I wanted to play basketball. Then I’d go baseball, and then I’d go to football. I remember playing football in a plowed field. I grew up going from one thing to the next wanting to play something.
