American - Coach | January 5, 1932 - June 13, 2014
I used to tell the players that professional football is a part-time profession. I used to tell them it gets you ready for your life's work.
Chuck Noll
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We were really lucky and fortunate in the '70s because we got a group of not only good football players but good people... a group that wanted to be together and wanted to be the best.
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It would have been great to have had 10 victories and been in the playoffs and have gone all the way and then said, 'Goodbye,' but it didn't work out that way.
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Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.
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It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.
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Losing has nothing to do with geography.
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Mamas, don't let your sons grow up to be Cowboys... or Oilers.
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I tried to look around to see what I wanted to do. Football was something I knew the most about.
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In 1969, we decided we had to do certain things technically to win, and we decided to do them then, even though we knew some of the personnel couldn't do it. In other words, instead of adapting the system to the players, we just installed our system. Then we set out to fill our team through the draft.
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The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.
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I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don't strive for it, because I don't think it's important whether I'm good copy or not. The two can go together, if that's your personality, but every person on this earth is unique.
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I'm really not a celebrity; I'm just a teacher.
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