Top 23 Chuck Noll Quotes
1. Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing. — Chuck Noll
2. A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning. — Chuck Noll
3. The thrill isn’t in the winning, it’s in the doing. — Chuck Noll
4. The most interesting thing about this sport, at least to me, it the activity of preparation-any aspect of preparation for the games. The thrill isn’t in the winning, it’s in the doing. — Chuck Noll
5. You can’t make a great play until you first do it in practice. — Chuck Noll
6. Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else. — Chuck Noll
7. On every team, there is a core group that sets the tone for everyone else. If the tone is positive, you have half the battle won. If it is negative, you are beaten before you ever walk on the field. — Chuck Noll
8. Leaving the game plan is a sign of panic, and panic is not in our game plan. — Chuck Noll
9. Champions do ordinary things better than everyone else. — Chuck Noll
10. Being stubborn is a virtue when you’re right; it’s only a character flaw when you’re wrong. — Chuck Noll
11. Never make a major decision based solely on money. — Chuck Noll
12. In order to WIN the game, you must first not LOSE it. — Chuck Noll
13. Watch the film, not the stopwatch. — Chuck Noll
14. It’s not pleasant when you lose your whole football team. — Chuck Noll
15. If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out. —Chuck Noll
16. Good things come to those who hustle. —Chuck Noll
17. As you gain experience, you mature as an individual, and along with that comes the confidence that you have the ability to solve problems. — Chuck Noll
18. Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it. — Chuck Noll
19. I can’t tell you how much you gain, how much progress you can make, by working together as a team, by helping one another. You get much more done that way. If there’s anything the Steelers of the ’70s epitomized, I think it was that teamwork. — Chuck Noll
20. The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time. Winning one week at a time. Never look back and never look ahead. — Chuck Noll
21. Some citizens are so good that nothing a leader can do will make them better. Others are so incorrigible that nothing can be done to improve them. But the great bulk of the people go with the moral tide of the moment. The leader must help create that tide. Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They’ll give me plenty of wisdom. — Chuck Noll
22. Pressure is what you feel when you don’t know what’s going on. — Chuck Noll
23. Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They’ll give me plenty of wisdom. — Chuck Noll
