Bum Phillips famous quotes

Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.
-- Bum Phillips

#Motivational Sports #Fun #Winning

I'd rather have preparation than motivation. Everyone likes to play, but no one likes to practice.
-- Bum Phillips

#Leadership #Basketball #Motivation

I done drew the line. Just like the Alamo. You're either on one side of the line or the other. I don't want to ever leave Texas again.
-- Bum Phillips

#Texas #Done #Lines

Dallas Cowboys may be America's team, but the Houston Oilers are Texas' team.
-- Bum Phillips

#Team #Cowboy #Texas

How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.
-- Bum Phillips

#Winning #Player #Average

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.
-- Bum Phillips

#Life #Motivational #Volleyball

You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.
-- Bum Phillips

#Football #Blame #Failing

Mama always said that if it can't rain on you, you're indoors.
-- Bum Phillips

#Rain #Mama #Said

Loyalty, up and down the line. That's one quality an organization must have to be successful.
-- Bum Phillips

#Loyalty #Successful #Organization

I don't mind people thinking I'm stupid, but I don't want to give them any proof.
-- Bum Phillips

#Stupid #Thinking #People

If I drop dead tomorrow, at least I’ll know I died in good health.
-- Bum Phillips

#Tomorrow #Good Health

The road to the Super Bowl runs through Pittsburgh, sooner or later you've got to go to Pittsburgh.
-- Bum Phillips

#Running #Pittsburgh #Sooner Or Later

Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.
-- Bum Phillips

#Two #Doe #Kind

The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.
-- Bum Phillips

#Sports #Assumption #Trouble

An expert is an ordinary fella away from home.
-- Bum Phillips

#Leadership #Sports #Home

The film looks suspiciously like the game itself!
-- Bum Phillips

#Leadership #Sports #Games

Nothing. And, I don't start before noon.
-- Bum Phillips

#Nfl #Noon

I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials.
-- Bum Phillips

#War #Southern #Civil War

That boy could throw a ball through a car wash and not get it wet. (on Warren Moon)
-- Bum Phillips

#Football #Boys #Moon

You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it.
-- Bum Phillips

#Nfl #Splinters #Ladders

I never scrimmage Oilers against Oilers...What for? Houston isn't on our schedule.
-- Bum Phillips

#Athlete #Schedules #Houston

Because she is too ugly to kiss goodbye.
-- Bum Phillips

#Sports #Goodbye #Kissing

Yep. And I noticed how slowly he went down each time, too. (When asked if he noticed how slowly Earl Campbell got up after each play.)
-- Bum Phillips

#Football #Play #Inspiring Football

Respect all. Fear none.
-- Bum Phillips

#Football #Inspiring Football #Fear None

I always thought I could coach. I just thought people were poor judges of good coaches.
-- Bum Phillips

#Football #People #Judging

There's two kinds of coaches, them that's fired and them that's gonna be fired.
-- Bum Phillips

#Football #Two #Kind

The harder we played, the behinder we got.
-- Bum Phillips

#Football #Inspiring Football #Harder

Rogers sees daylight. Campbell makes daylight.
-- Bum Phillips

#Daylight #Roger

Yeah, that test says he's dumb as a fence post, but when he hits he looks like Einstein to me.
-- Bum Phillips

#Football #Dumb #Looks

Coaching is not how much you know. It's how much you can get players to do.
-- Bum Phillips

#Football #Player #Coaching

I thought I did until I looked at some old game films. (When asked if he played college football)
-- Bum Phillips

#Football #College #Games

I don't need the news. If they have a war, I figure someone will tell me.
-- Bum Phillips

#War #Media #Needs

He may not be in a class all by himself, but it don't take long to call the roll.
-- Bum Phillips

#Class #Nfl #Long

When it's first and a mile, I won't give it to him.
-- Bum Phillips

#Nfl #Giving #Firsts

Yep. And I noticed how slowly he went down each time, too.
-- Bum Phillips

#Nfl