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Words of Wisdom

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With innovations such as the pocket pass, loose-leaf playbooks, year-round coaching staffs, classroom teaching and tests, advanced scouting, grading player performance from film review, and sending in plays from the sideline, some say Paul Brown was the greatest coach who ever lived. Add to that coaching legendary high school teams at Massilon, Ohio, a national championships at Ohio State, all four AAFC champions, and three NFL championships, it's hard to get much argument to that claim. Brown began his NFL career in 1950 by taking his AAFC champions and thrashing the defending NFL champion Philadelphia Eagles 35-10. He ended his NFL career by coaching his expansion Cincinnatti Bengals into the playoffs in only three years (faster than anyone had ever done at the time). He coached the Bengals into the playoffs twice more before retiring in 1975.

"Winning makes believers of us all."

"Always remember, when you meet an obnoxious football player, the meanest thing you can do to him is beat him. They can play dirty, call you names, violate the rules. Just beat 'em. They understand that more than anything."

"As a coach, I never believed in working into the wee hours of the night. I personally functioned and thought more clearly when I was well rested, and I think a coaching staff does too. I've heard some professional coaches brag about working 18 to 20 hours a day, sleeping on cots in their office, and I've always wondered just how much they really accomplish during all those hours."

"Our coaches were the first in professional football ever to work year-round. There was no dignity, I felt, in having a man coach our offensive line for six months and then sell automobiles for six months."

"If it's worth something, it's worth everything."

"There is nothing wrong with losing unless you learn to like it."

"We played a lot of teams that were beaten in their own minds even before the kickoff."

"I enjoy winning and very much dislike losing-but I did not allow either of them to obsess me. I was a silent loser, believing that if you won, you said little, and if you lost, you said even less."

"A victory at any price had no value for me, nor did I put down our team if it played well and lost."

"Getting into football is a state of heart and mind as well as physical."

Quotes from press clips and Football Coach Quotes: The Wit, Wisdom and Winning Words of Leaders on the Gridiron, by Larry Adler





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