Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American coach Chuck Pagano.
Last updated on November 7, 2024.
Charles David Pagano is a former American football coach and former player. Pagano spent five seasons in the National Football League (NFL) as head coach of the Indianapolis Colts from 2012–2017. He also served as the defensive coordinator for the Baltimore Ravens in 2011, and as defensive coordinator of the Chicago Bears from 2019–2020. Pagano has also served as an assistant coach for the Oakland Raiders and Cleveland Browns. He is the older brother of John Pagano. After the Colts fired him following the 2017 season, Pagano took a year off from coaching, working as a consultant for the NFL.
We have to know that nothing is promised, nothing is guaranteed, especially tomorrow.
When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?'
I know that there are coaches who do end up sleeping on the sofa in their office.
I am the luckiest man in the world.
With expectations, when you throw that stuff out there, when you put a bunch of pressure on yourself to reach those goals, you don't do anything different. You just keep working to get better.
You're defined by how you play the game, not by the game itself.
If you're running on fumes, you get to a point of diminishing results. Get some rest.
I've always been a religious person.
I've always just tried to treat people with respect, build relationships with players and coaches... build a trust.
When you get chemo, some people get a lot of sores in their mouth and even their esophagus, so they chew on ice; thank God that didn't happen with me.
I grew up in a football family, on the sideline. I was a waterboy. It was kinda something I was around my whole life.
If I can encourage and get somebody to get through what they're dealing with, their set of circumstances, that's the right thing to do.
If you don't have your health, you don't have anything.
You have some dark days and dark moments going through chemo and things like that.
I've got so many things coming across my desk right now that are nonfootball related, I can't stand it.
My vision is that I'm living to see two more daughters get married, dance at their weddings and then lift the Lombardi Trophy several times.
When you have things taken away, you promise you'll never take anything for granted ever again.
When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?
Circumstances don't make you, they reveal you .
We all have circumstances, choose not to live in your circumstance, but live in your vision!
But regardless of our circumstances, they do not define us - not unless we give in and let them. Circumstances never determine who we are; they reveal who we are.
My vision that I’m living is to see two more daughters get married, dance at their weddings and then lift the Lombardi Trophy several times.