Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Joe Ehrmann

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a footballer Joe Ehrmann.

Last updated on April 18, 2025.

Joseph Charles Ehrmann is a former National Football League (NFL) defensive lineman, originally drafted as the 10th pick in the first round of the 1973 NFL Draft out of Syracuse University to the Baltimore Colts. Ehrmann is currently the President of the InSideOut Initiative. Ehrmann played with Baltimore for eight years as a member of the "Sack Pack," and finished his NFL career with the Detroit Lions as part of their vaunted Silver Rush defensive line in the early 1980s. He was an NFL defensive tackle from 1973 through 1982. He then played in the USFL for the Chicago Blitz, Arizona Wranglers and Orlando Renegades.

Footballer | Born: March 29, 1949

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Develop a cause beyond yourself. Try to leave the world a better place because you were here.

Joe Ehrmann

One of the great myths in America is that sports build character. They can and they should. Indeed, sports may be the perfect venue in which to build character. But sports don't build character unless a coach possesses character and intentionally teaches it. Sports can team with ethics and character and spirituality; virtuous coaching can integrate the body with the heart, the mind, and the soul.

Joe Ehrmann

The three most destructive words that every man receives when he's a boy is when he's told to 'be a man'.

Joe Ehrmann

I coach to help boys become men of empathy and integrity who will lead, be responsible, and change the world for good.

Joe Ehrmann

It comes down to this: What kind of father are you? What kind of husband are you? What kind of coach or teammate are you? What kind of son are you? What kind of friend are you? Success comes in terms of relationships.

Joe Ehrmann

At the end of our life, we ought to be able to look back over it from our deathbed and know somehow the world is a better place because we lived, we loved, we were other-centered, other-focused.

Joe Ehrmann

Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Joe Ehrmann

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