Chuck Noll

Coach

1932-01-05 – 2014-06-13

Chuck Noll was an American football coach best known as head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, where he won four Super Bowl titles. He is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Quotes by Chuck Noll

Respectability? Who wants to be respectable? That's spoken like a true loser.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.
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The single most important thing we had in the Steelers of the '70s was the ability to work together.
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