Top 40 Football Coach Quotes

I think that the role as a head football coach is a lot more than just winning games. Sometimes that’s all we’re measured upon.

I think Nick Saban is the greatest college football coach in history over there in Tuscaloosa.

I believe we have the best football coach in the country in Urban Meyer. I had the privilege of hiring him, as you know, and I think he is doing fabulous work.

I’m a football fan first and foremost, but I’ve been given an incredible opportunity to be a football coach in the National Football League.

If you say you’re a football coach, especially with a dude, they’re always all over you.

Why can’t a seven-foot guy play a doctor? Why can’t I be a teacher? Why can’t I be a football coach? Why can’t I be a cab driver? Anything. Anything else than that. I can cry. I can do those things that they think the big guys can’t do. So just give us a chance.

You better have an anchor in life. It doesn’t matter if you’re a Division I head football coach or Joe Schmo from Okemoh. Bad things happen. If you’re not anchored, you’re going to be washed away.

I’m going to coach here as long as I can. As long as I’m effective for North Carolina, I will be the football coach.

Fortunately for me, my grandfather gave us a life I could never dream of. He was my high school football coach, my best friend, my school teacher – really my dad.

I’m the seventh chancellor at Vanderbilt; Bobby Johnson is the 25th head football coach. That shows a lack of commitment to attract and retain.

My dad is a high school football coach in Texas so I’ve been around this game for a long time.

American politics are rich with characters and stereotypes – Joe the Plumber, Harry and Louise, Nascar dads and hockey moms, to name a few. But one persistent type hasn’t gotten much attention: the Republican football coach.

As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment.

The characteristic that every college football coach should look for in a wife is independence.

I wanted to play football, and my football coach told me if I wanted to be a football player, I should wrestle. That’s why I started to wrestle.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me – nobody, like the football coach.

If I had maintained my athletic fantasy, I probably would have ended up as a fat football coach somewhere in central Pennsylvania. I’m really glad I’m starring in a Broadway musical instead.

My dad’s a football coach, that’s what he does.

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important.

Keith Butler is a very good football coach.

It disturbs me to see a football coach fired.

If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.

I’m not a one-hit wonder. When you look at my background, I think I’ve been successful at all stops along the way. I know the kind of responsibility it takes to be a head football coach.

Dad had great people investing in his life at a young age. His mother, his stepfather, his Boy Scout leader, his football coach. That’s where integrity is planted, like seeds that are harvested later.

I had no ambition to be a football coach. I wanted to be a spy for MI5 or MI6.

When I was really little, I was on a Pop Warner squad. I did it for a year. My dad was a Pop Warner football coach. I did it because my best friend was also on this cheer squad, and of course I looked up to my sister who was a cheerleader, so I wanted to cheer.

I can remember various stages when I wanted to be an artist, a football coach, and a musician but never an actor. However, I’ll have to admit that now that I’m in this business I like it and would hate to have to give it up.

For some reason the football coach of a major college program is seen as one of the leaders of the campus. And some way we have to let our young people know that that leader can look like anyone.

If the be-all and end-all of your ability is, ‘Have you got a trophy to your name,’ I find that hard to understand. It’s so naive in terms of what the job of being a football coach is all about.

Every day I pull into that parking spot that says ‘Head Football Coach,’ I get out of my car and pinch myself sometimes, just to make sure it’s real, sort of like, ‘Is this really happening?’

I don’t want to be the athletic director at Texas, that’s not my expertise. I don’t want to take wins as a football coach and have someone shove me into that position because they’d think I’d like it, that I deserve it or a ‘pat on the back.’

William McKinley Oswald was my high school football coach. He was a great coach and had a profound influence on my life. But I think he could have learned his method of motivating players from an army drill sergeant.

I’m a football coach. It seems the league is cyclical and hiring young guys… but experience in the NFL still means a heck of a lot.

If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.

Belichick, I recognize the fact this is a Hall of Fame coach. He’ll go down in history as maybe the greatest football coach in the history of this game, or going to be close to it.

I’m a football coach, not a model.

I’m a football manager, a football coach; I can’t be expected to pontificate on everything.

Of course, any work you do as a sporting person, a football coach or any coach, if it is good work, you’ve got to have something – a championship – to show for it.

I was hired to be the head football coach, not the general manager.