Chuck Noll Quotes

"The sun has to shine and that's all it takes."

"Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it."

"The single most important thing we had in the Steelers of the 1970s was an ability to work together,"

"The one that influenced me the most is Paul Brown. His success and his control and his ability to teach."

"I have been to 39 professional training camps and if I miss anything it's the camaraderie with the people that are involved."

"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."

"One thing about football is that it is very humbling. You are gonna lose some and when you work hard enough, you win some. The losing is always the low point."

"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 do whatever you have to do as part of the team. You may have to carry somebody."

"The thing that stuck out was we had a lot of people who didn't worry about what somebody else did. If someone else was having a tough time on a particular day, they reached down and got it up a little more. They got the thing done. Whatever they had to do, they did to win. There was never a reason to let down."

"I can't tell you how much you gain, how much progress you can make, by working together as a team, by helping one another. You get much more done that way. If there's anything the Steelers of the '70s epitomized, I think it was that teamwork."

Compiled by Thomas George
editor@Wisdom-of-the-Wise.com