“I will not promise boys positions, I will not promise any of you football success, I will demand discipline, character, respect, and work ethic throughout the program. If I succeed in getting people to believe then success will follow.”
― Team Of One: We Believe
― Team Of One: We Believe
“wasn’t the first, but I would be the last. That didn’t make me the second prize. It made me his forever.”
― Beautiful Redemption
― Beautiful Redemption
“A good defense was steadfast and strong and straightforward, dominating in a physical and merciless way. Offense could be messy and tricky, full of mistakes that made the ball tumble to and fro, taking the coach’s stomach for a ride along with it. For Noll, like Brown before him, football’s greatness appeared in the finest details, the inches won in the trenches, not the bundles of yards gained by the fleetest feet or the strongest arms. But mostly, to play great defense was practical, and there is logic and beauty in pragmatism. Logic was Noll’s muse.”
― The Ones Who Hit the Hardest: The Steelers, the Cowboys, the '70s, and the Fight for America's Soul
― The Ones Who Hit the Hardest: The Steelers, the Cowboys, the '70s, and the Fight for America's Soul
“But in all of the sadness, when you’re feeling that your heart is empty, and lacking,
You’ve got to remember that grief isn’t the absence of love.
Grief is the proof that love is still there.”
― Heaven Has No Regrets
You’ve got to remember that grief isn’t the absence of love.
Grief is the proof that love is still there.”
― Heaven Has No Regrets
“If you are not a part of the solution then you must be part of the problem. I am done with problems here!”
― Team Of One: We Believe
― Team Of One: We Believe
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