Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by George Halas

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American coach George Halas.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

George Stanley Halas Sr., nicknamed "Papa Bear" and "Mr. Everything", was an American professional football player, coach, and team owner. He was the founder and owner of the National Football League's Chicago Bears, and served as his own head coach on four occasions. He was also lesser-known as a Major League Baseball player for the New York Yankees.

American - Coach | February 2, 1895 - October 31, 1983

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Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

George Halas

Find out what the other team wants to do. Then take it away from them.

George Halas

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

George Halas

Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game.

George Halas

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

George Halas

At last, the newspapers discovered the Bears. I kept writing articles about upcoming games, and by reading the papers, I learned editors like superlatives. I blush when I think how many times I wrote that the next game was going to be the most difficult of the season or how a new player was the fastest man in the West.

George Halas

When they boo you, you know they mean you.

George Halas

You can achieve only that which you will do.

George Halas

San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo.

George Halas

If you live long enough, lots of nice things happen.

George Halas

Nobody whoever gave their best ever regretted it.

George Halas

You might reduce Lombardi's coaching philosophy to a single sentence: In any game, you do the things you do best and you do them over and over and over.

George Halas

What makes a good coach? Complete dedication.

George Halas

At least 80 percent of the success of the football team is determined by the fight and spirit that they put into their play.

George Halas

Nobody who has ever given his best has regretted it.

George Halas