Jimmy Johnson
Coach
1943-07-16
Quotes by Jimmy Johnson
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You can't be a sloppy football team and be successful in the NFL.
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Elliott's bigger, stronger, maybe even a step faster than Emmitt Smith, but they're both very similar. I think, you know, Ezekiel Elliott is a more powerful runner. He runs over people. Both of 'em can make people miss, so you don't really get a big shot on 'em. But Elliott will take on tacklers, whereas, you know, Emmitt never did this.
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I know as a coach and a player we had three a day practices and that was physically taxing but at least we had food in our stomach and a good nights rest and plenty of cold water.
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In some ways 'Survivor' might have saved my life.
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Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?
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Football is such a team sport, so no one individual does it. No one coach or no one assistant coach or no one player, it's a great team sport, so I don't get carried away with a bunch of accolades.
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Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a person as if he were where he could be and should be, and he will become what he could be and should be.
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The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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