Words to coach by from football's greatest teachers.

Bear Bryant: I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.

LaVell Edwards: If you're going to go to a passing game, make sure you have the defense to go with it because you're not going to keep the ball for long blocks of time.

John Ralston: You no longer can ask a team to run through a brick wall for you. You have to treat them as individuals. You have to address the mind.

Bill Walsh: It's no longer the same passing game. You have to find ways of disguising the play - show run in short-yardage situations and then pass long; show run from your own end zone and then pass; set up with a full backfield, two tight ends and just one receiver wide, and then hit that receiver.

Amos Alonzo Stagg: The least understood weapon in football is emotion.

Jock Sutherland: Speed is not your fastest man, but your slowest man.

Lou Holtz: You cannot win without good athletes, but you can lose with them. That is where coaching can make the difference.

Mike Ditka: As a coach, you get wrapped up in winning and losing, the fans, the press, the players, the disappointments and the joys. You realize that too much of your life revolves around what happens every Saturday or Sunday afternoon. Maybe it shouldn't be that way. But for you it has to be that way.

John Madden: Conservative football may be boring, but when you put everything on the line in one game, you have to be conservative. Instead of playing to win, you must play not to make the mistakes that can cost you the game. Execution becomes everything.

Joe Paterno: Bud Wilkinson once told me that any time one of his coaches told him that practice was too long, he would immediately cut it down. That's a good rule for every head coach to follow.

Walt Michaels: I don't trust anyone who is supposed to be fearless. A person who has no fear belongs in a mental institution. Or on special teams.

Bud Grant: You go into a game knowing "they" will be there. You don't know how many or in what form "they" will appear. The trick lies in watching for them, recognizing them, and responding to them. They are the breaks that can turn the game around.

Vince Lombardi: Mental toughness is Spartanism with its qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication, fearlessness, and love. By love, I don't mean liking or that special feeling you have for your wife. It is loyalty, which is the greatest of loves.

Bum Phillips: There are multitudes of offensive sets, but you can't run out of all of them. You have to narrow them down to what you can do best and what fits your people best and what they can do best.

Eddie Robinson: Our university decided to become known as Grambling when our original cheerleaders tried to lead our cheering section in a locomotive for the Louisiana Negro Normal and Industrial Institution.

Knute Rockne: The only way you're going to win this game is to go out there and hit 'em, hit 'em, hit 'em like they've never been hit before, like you've never hit anyone before.

Joe Gibbs: The best way to avoid sacks and interceptions is to place your receivers all over the field and get a quarterback with a quick release who can read defenses and throw to the thinnest part of the coverage. Since multiple receivers give you the flexibility to go for broke on every play, have a built-in big play for every pass. Why settle for 12 yards when you have a chance to go for 50?

Bobby Dodd: The smart head coach will listen to those young, bright, and aggressive assistants who are always looking for ways to improve. Give them every opportunity to help you.

Darrell Royal: A head coach has to be guided by one thing: to chug, claw, wheedle, and coax that fanatical effort our of his players - make them play every game as if they were planting the flag on Iwo Jima.

Earl Blaik: The biggest mistake that coaches make is isolating the players - having them live together and eat together as if they weren't part of their school or the rest of the world.

Don Shula: I don't want my assistants to take no for an answer when they approach me with an idea they think can help the team. I want them to come back and sell me on it.

Bob Zuppke: Egotism is the anesthetic that deadens the pain of stupidity.

George Allen: I never think of whether a thing can be done. I think of what has to be done.

Bobby Bowden: If discipline was the key to winning, Army and Navy would be playing for the national championship every year.

Ara Parseghian: The moments of splendor, the ruthlessness of injury, the private inner sanctum of one's naked feelings exposed in loss or victory, the humor and tragedy of men at work and play can never be captured totally in words or pictures as vividly as they can be in a team game such as football.

Bo Schembechler: You can't wait until college to get a kid to throw his body around and crash into people. That kind of unnatural thing has to be instilled on the junior high school level.

Ben Schwartzwalder: My most unforgettable memory of Jimmy Brown was on a play in which he appeared to be badly hurt. The blood was running down into his eyes and I wanted to take him out, but he looked up at me and said: "Coach, let me stay in. I can still see the goal line."

Raymond Berry: A receiver who goes at full speed only when he is the intended receiver is a liability to the offense.

Duffy Daugherty: I was called the best fourth-quarter coach in football. What people didn't understand was that I was not very quick-witted and that it took me three quarters to find out what was going on.

Paul Brown: You can't ask a boy to be something special, if you don't treat him that way.