Top 62 Quotes & Sayings by Joe Paterno
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American coach Joe Paterno.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
I've had a wonderful experience here at Penn State.
The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.
To teach an academic subject is certainly not easy, but compared to coaching, it is. We can say 'two plus two is four' to every kid and be sure that we are right. But in coaching, we have to literally get to the soul of the people we are dealing with.
The name on the front of the jersey is what really matters, not the name on the back.
Here, I have an opportunity to affect the lives of a lot of young people - and not just on my football team. I'm not kidding myself that that would be true at the professional level.
It doesn't matter what people think of me. I've lived my life.
Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back.
Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
Mostly I want to talk positive; I wanna talk about a bunch of great kids that I coached and made me look good and the university that I've seen grow from a cow college, which it was, only 12,000 people, and when I came here, we weren't at Pennsylvania State University, we were at Penn State College.
When a kid plays football games before he attends a class, something is wrong.
You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
In every life, there have to be some shadows. Look at me. My life has been filled with sunshine. A beautiful and caring wife. Five healthy children. I got to do what I loved. How many people are that lucky?
You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.
Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
My thing was play as hard as you can, don't be stupid, pay attention to details, and have enough guts in the clutch that you're not afraid to make a play. Some things I thought were important for a young man to know.
I don't think I deviated from what I'm all about and what I thought was important. Whether you want to call that a legacy, or whatever you want to call it.
I don't think it's fair to 12-, 13- and 14-year-olds to say 'Show us you're a winner right now!' Winning isn't everything. I'll never buy that thing that if a boy loses a football game, he's a loser in life.
I really enjoyed coaching.
I'm not as concerned about me. What's happened to me has been great. I got five great kids. Seventeen grandchildren.
We have to realize a kid will love us one day and hate us the next. That cannot change who we are and what we are about.
Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.
You must relate athletic experiences to life.
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
We shall act with good intentions, but at times we will be wrong. When we are, let us admit it and try to right the situation.
What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence over young people than anybody but their families. And, in a lot of cases, more than their families.
Coaches have got to be given rank within the university so that you can't fire a coach unless you go through an academic committee, just as you would with a professor. If coaches are to have any stability and security, they need to be treated like an English professor.
A hard-fought, well-fought, hairline-close game is as classical in sports as tragedy is in the theater. Victory is contained within defeat, and defeat is contained within victory. That's the way it is in the best of games. What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle.
What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence than anybody but their families. And, in a lot of cases, more than their families.
There has to be some self-denial.
Sport is a product of human culture. America seems to need football at this state of our social development. When you get ninety million people watching a single game on television, it ... shows you that people need something to identify with.
SMU: 'It's unbelievable to think that kind of corruption came right from the top of the power structure. The NCAA did what it had to do' in canceling SMU's 1988 football season.
What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle.
They ask me what I'd like written about me when I'm gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach.
Keep hustling, something good will happen.
I stayed on the track I wanted to stay on. I don’t think I deviated from what I’m all about and what I thought was important. Whether you want to call that a legacy, or whatever you want to call it.
When a kid plays football before he attends a class, something is wrong.
There's never been a greater game than football.
Some things I thought were important for a young man to know.
We play with enthusiasm and recklessness. We aren't afraid to lose. If we win, great; but win or lose, it is the competition that gives us pleasure.
My father said about money: 'You have to have some. But you don't have to have all of it. Just be honest with yourself.'
We need people who influence their peers and who cannot be detoured from their convictions by peers who do not have the courage to have any convictions.
I still haven't gotten that little something out of my system that I'm still not a kid going to a football game. I'm excited.
If I had to do it over again, I'd probably play the game the same way.
You can't have a great university without a great library.
My name, I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone.
Don't just stand back and play the way you're coached. A great player must rise to the occasion and turn the game around on his own.
Success is best measured by the achiever.
Success and excellence are not the same. Excellence grows within a person, is largely within that person's control, and its meaning lasts. Success is measured externally, by comparison to others, is often outside our control, and is perishable.
Today, you've got a decision to make. You're gonna get better or you're gonna get worse, but you're not gonna stay the same. Which will it be?
You're only as happy as your least happy child.
Failure is not getting beat. Failure is when you don't do a good job preparing.
In hindsight, I wish I had done more.
To teach an academic subject is certainly not easy, but compared to coaching, it is. We can say two plus two is four to every kid and be sure that we are right. But in coaching, we have to literally get to the soul of the people we are dealing with.
Right now I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do, 'cause I don't want to sit around on my backside all day. If I'm gonna do that I'll be a newspaper reporter.
Connfidence, excellence becomes a reality.
I had a great bunch of kids. They all hung with us. The coaching staff hung with us. And we played tough every game. If you've got kids that want to play and react to you, it's fun. I'm having a good time.
Everybody likes to win. It sure beats the devil out of losing.
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