Joe Paterno famous quotes

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.
-- Joe Paterno

#Life #Uplifting #Running

Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back.
-- Joe Paterno

#Names #Nfl #Matter

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
-- Joe Paterno

#Loyalty #Sports #Running

If I had to do it over again, I'd probably play the game the same way.
-- Joe Paterno

#Games #Play #Way

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
-- Joe Paterno

#Teamwork #Confidence #Reality

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
-- Joe Paterno

#Softball #Sports #Running

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
-- Joe Paterno

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
-- Joe Paterno

#Success #Business #Congratulations

Everybody likes to win. It sure beats the devil out of losing.
-- Joe Paterno

#Winning #Devil #Likes

They ask me what I'd like written about me when I'm gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach.
-- Joe Paterno

#Football #Writing #Gone

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
-- Joe Paterno

#Confidence #Play #Needs

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.
-- Joe Paterno

#Motivational Sports #Determination #Nfl

Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.
-- Joe Paterno

#Hurt #Humility #Poison

Success is best measured by the achiever.
-- Joe Paterno

#Achiever

Keep hustling, something good will happen,
-- Joe Paterno

#Hustle

SMU: 'It's unbelievable to think that kind of corruption came right from the top of the power structure. The NCAA did what it had to do' in canceling SMU's 1988 football season.
-- Joe Paterno

#Football #Thinking #Ncaa

I stayed on the track I wanted to stay on. I don’t think I deviated from what I’m all about and what I thought was important. Whether you want to call that a legacy, or whatever you want to call it.
-- Joe Paterno

#Thinking #Track #Important

Some things I thought were important for a young man to know.
-- Joe Paterno

#Men #Important #Young

What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence than anybody but their families. And, in a lot of cases, more than their families.
-- Joe Paterno

#Teacher #Nfl #Educator

The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.
-- Joe Paterno

#Thinking #Challenges #Disaster

What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle.
-- Joe Paterno

#Sports #Struggle #Hockey

Today, you've got a decision to make. You're gonna get better or you're gonna get worse, but you're not gonna stay the same. Which will it be?
-- Joe Paterno

#Decision #Get Better #Today

To teach an academic subject is certainly not easy, but compared to coaching, it is. We can say 'two plus two is four' to every kid and be sure that we are right. But in coaching, we have to literally get to the soul of the people we are dealing with.
-- Joe Paterno

#Kids #Two #People

We play with enthusiasm and recklessness. We aren't afraid to lose. If we win, great; but win or lose, it is the competition that gives us pleasure.
-- Joe Paterno

#Leadership #Sports #Winning

The kids that were the victims ... I think we all ought to say a prayer for them,
-- Joe Paterno

#Prayer #Kids #Thinking

Sport is a product of human culture. America seems to need football at this state of our social development. When you get ninety million people watching a single game on television, it ... shows you that people need something to identify with.
-- Joe Paterno

#Sports #Football #Games

In hindsight, I wish I had done more.
-- Joe Paterno

#Wish #Done #Hindsight

My name, I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone.
-- Joe Paterno

#Mean #Names #Trying

When a kid plays football before he attends a class, something is wrong.
-- Joe Paterno

#Football #Kids #Class

You're only as happy as your least happy child.
-- Joe Paterno

#Children #Happy Children

You must relate athletic experiences to life.
-- Joe Paterno

#Nfl #Athletic #Relate

There's never been a greater game than football.
-- Joe Paterno

#Football #Games

Don't just stand back and play the way you're coached. A great player must rise to the occasion and turn the game around on his own.
-- Joe Paterno

#Leadership #Sports #Player

We need people who influence their peers and who cannot be detoured from their convictions by peers who do not have the courage to have any convictions.
-- Joe Paterno

#Leadership #Sports #People

A hard-fought, well-fought, hairline-close game is as classical in sports as tragedy is in the theater. Victory is contained within defeat, and defeat is contained within victory. That's the way it is in the best of games. What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle.
-- Joe Paterno

#Sports #Struggle #Games

I still haven't gotten that little something out of my system that I'm still not a kid going to a football game. I'm excited.
-- Joe Paterno

#Football #Kids #Games

You can't have a great university without a great library.
-- Joe Paterno

#Library #University

Success and excellence are not the same. Excellence grows within a person, is largely within that person's control, and its meaning lasts. Success is measured externally, by comparison to others, is often outside our control, and is perishable.
-- Joe Paterno

#Sports #Excellence #Lasts