"There is no substitute for work. It is the price of success."
"I don't want anyone limping through a workout. If you have to limp, don't work out. But if you work out, don't limp."
"The essence of the game - the only 'fun' of the game - is the soul-satisfying awareness that comes not only with victory but also with the realization that victory more than justifies all the communal work and sacrifice that went into it."
"Young men respect authority and a football team cannot be coached by committee action."
"I was just as concerned about the injured man as you were. But to be consoling an injured man is bad for you and bad for him. It breeds a softness that is inimical to success."
"You don't develop good teeth by eating mush."
"There never was a champion who to himself was a good loser. There's a vast difference between a good sport and a good loser."
"Inches make a champion and a champion makes his own luck."
"Good fellows are a dime a dozen, but an aggressive leader is priceless."
"There's no end to ideas. I sleep with a pad alongside my bed."
"Football is a marvelous game because of its limitless permutations and combinations of men in action."
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