Quotes from Chuck Noll

I'm really not a celebrity; I'm just a teacher.

Never make a major decision based solely on money.

Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.

Good things come to those who hustle

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.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

You can't make a great play until you first do it in practice.

Pressure is what you feel when you don't know what's going on.

It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.

One of the things you learn in football is that you're only as good as your last outing. I don't like to reflect on what we've done in the past. I'm not a very good storyteller, for one thing. I'd disappoint you. When it's time, I'll talk about the good old days. But it's a sign of old age, reveling in the past.

Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.

Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what you're doing.

Right now, you hear about teamwork, and it's defined as 50-50, and that is a falsehood. There's no such thing as 50-50. You know, you do whatever you have to do as part of the team.

In 1969, we decided we had to do certain things technically to win, and we decided to do them then, even though we knew some of the personnel couldn't do it. In other words, instead of adapting the system to the players, we just installed our system. Then we set out to fill our team through the draft.

Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else.

If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out.

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.

The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.

The critics are always right. The only way you shut them up is by winning.

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.

Losing has nothing to do with geography.

We were really lucky and fortunate in the '70s because we got a group of not only good football players but good people... a group that wanted to be together and wanted to be the best.

Mamas, don't let your sons grow up to be Cowboys... or Oilers.