Top Team Direction Quotes

The third year at a school for any head coach is the most important year for the program they are attempting to develop.

I teach our young men that respect is earned each day on the practice field, in the classroom, and how each young man lives his life.

To achieve any group goal, individuals must work to improve themselves as a means to improve the group.

Before success can truly become routine, there must be that transition from that wanting/hoping to have success toward honestly knowing you can earn success with your talents and work ethic.

• “…it is easy to read that this game is more than just a game, it is a culmination of a group of coaches and boys on a mission to not just experience, but rather to achieve something that only they b...

The great cancer facing all of us during this ‘new millennium’ is entitlement.

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 t...

If you are not a part of the solution then you must be part of the problem. I am done with problems here!

I think we had to hit rock-bottom in all facets of the program before we could ever start moving in a positive direction.

The development of the “We Believe” philosophy must be real and not cosmetic. Everyone must buy in and understand that it is not a motivational tool, but rather something very personal that should be...

I truly believe that success is determined not on Friday nights during games but rather in practice away from the lights and glimmer where coaches and players only have each other, their sweat, their...

It is important for coaches to mentor young people toward those things that are most important in life and aid them in creating their own order of priorities to live by.

Coaching is like riding a roller coaster with many ups and downs. The true test is weathering the storm. The average length of time anywhere in America that a man is a head high school football coach...

We live in a society that only embraces success and that is who we are. It takes a great deal of inner strength to deal with the time commitment of coaching when very little seems to be accomplished.

Nothing in life that is of value comes easy. If good things came easily then the value would be diminished. When we have a vested interest, when we give everything we have, then, and only then are tho...

Linked together as a team with one goal, we soon realized we were only as strong as our weakest link. But did we condemn the weakermember? That wouldn’t serve any purpose. Instead, the stronger guys...