Chuck Noll

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

I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don't strive for it, because I don't think it's important whether I'm good copy or not. The two can go together, if that's your personality, but every person on this earth is unique. ”

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

I used to tell the players that professional football is a part-time profession. I used to tell them it gets you ready for your life's work. ”

Respectability? Who wants to be respectable? That's spoken like a true loser. ”

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. ”

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. ”

It would have been great to have had 10 victories and been in the playoffs and have gone all the way and then said, 'Goodbye,' but it didn't work out that way. ”

The single most important thing we had in the Steelers of the '70s was the ability to work together. ”