Bum Phillips

“The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.”

“Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.”

“He may not be in a class by himself, but it don't take long to call the roll.”

“I always thought I could coach. I just thought people were poor judges of good coaches.”

“I've never seen a player who was a good loser. That's why they're not good losers.”

“You don't know a guy until you've coached him.”

“Respect is not something you can ask for, buy or borrow. It is something you have to earn.”

“Last year we knocked on the door. This year we're gonna kick it in.”

“Coaching is not how much you know. It's how much you can get players to do.”

“You can't make a race horse out of a mule.”

“Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors wins.”

“There's two kinds of coaches, them that's fired and them that's gonna be fired.”

“He can take his'n and beat your'n and take your'n and beat his'n.”

“The harder we work, the luckier we get.”

“That boy could throw a football through a car wash and not get it wet.”