Tonight is our national election so my attention will be there. However, I want to continue to invest in you and your leadership. I’m cleaning out some old files and came across 40 Leadership Quotes From Some Of College Football’s Greatest Leaders during the 2019 season.
Below are the dates, television program, and the quote itself. These will encourage and inspire you. Make sure you file these away and revisit them when needed.
October 26th ESPN College Gameday
- Culture Of Execution – “We’re trying to build a culture of execution here. It’s now about what you do, it’s about how you do it. We’re not looking to put on a show at LSU. We’re looking to put on a clinic.” – Joe Brady, LSU Passing Game Coordinator
- Elite Players Do Small Things Well – “You want to make an elite player better. It’s the small things, not the big things.” – Ohio State d-line coach Larry Johnson
October 19th ESPN College Gameday
- Make Great Choices – “My choices and decisions are a lot better.” – Tua Tagolvailoa on what he has improved on this year
- Focus On The Positives – “You’ve got to focus on your positives… Another thing is it comes down to people… At the end of the day, it’s about players.” – Penn St head coach James Franklin on how to sustain success.
- Limit Mistakes – “One of the best things we’ve done is even in games where we’ve haven’t put up huge numbers, we’ve protected the football.” – Franklin
- At The End Of The Day It’s About Preparation And Execution – “There are very few things on this planet the have 112,000 people show up supporting it. Enjoy that. Appreciate that but at the end of the day it’s about our preparation and execution.” – Frankin on Penn State’s home crowd
October 12th Fox Sports College Preview
- “Justin Fields’ ability to extend plays. That’s the number one difference between Ohio State this year and what they were a year ago.” – Joel Klatt
- The Process – “Through the week, you do what you normally do. You let the process take care of itself.” – Bob Stoops on rivalry week
- Play To Your Strengths – “He knows how to play to his quarterbacks’ strengths and find big chunk plays for them.” – Stoops on Lincoln Riley
- Your Margin For Error Is Small – “When you get in these Top 10 matchups, when you get in these big-time games, the margin for error gets really small. No one knows what play is going to make the difference in the game. We just got to be ready for it.” – Dan Mullen
October 5th ESPN College Gameday
- Gifted Kids – “When you coach young players it’s a lot like teaching an advanced placement course, an AP course for gifted kids. It’s very challenging. It’s hard to get an “A”.” – Nick Saban
- Reinforce Positives. Correct Negatives. – “You do your best to prepare them from a knowledge and experience standpoint… They have to go through the process and make some mistakes. They’ll do some things right. Reinforce the positives. Correct the negatives and hopefully they’re improve with this knowledge and experience.” – Saban
- Next Guy Up – “You’ve got to have the philosophy that it’s the next guy up.” – Saban on injuries
- “Resiliency is all about getting back to normal when something good or bad happens. Young guys have a harder time doing that, that comes with maturity.” – Saban
- People Are A Picture Of The Leader – “Anytime I’m more engaged the team takes on my personality.” – Auburn head coach Gus Malzahn
- “The hot seat is equated with every program who expects to win championships.” – Malzahn
- How To Become Dominant – “When you take effort and combine it with our scheme and do it together is when we become dominant.” – Lincoln Riley
September 28th Fox Sports College Preview
- For Leaders To Succeed They Must Be In Friendly Systems – “If your system is not a quarterback friendly system, you need to find a new system.” – Lincoln Riley
- Toughness – “They’ve (his quarterbacks) gotta be tough. They’ve got to be a winner. I like guys who’ve got a little bit of a chip on their shoulder.” – Riley
September 28th ESPN College Gameday
- “That’s the art of coaching right now. They have to feel loved. They have to feel positive but at the same time have that edge to them, the uncomfortable feeling they’re going to fight and work really, really hard.” – Ryan Day
- Love And Toughness – “Everyday you wake up and say ‘How can I make our team tough’ and still give them the love they want.” – Day
- Handling Failure – “When something doesn’t go well we have to hang in their like men and handle it well.” – Day
September 21st ESPN College Gameday
- Distractions – “Each and every week we stick with our process and prepare them for the distractions.” – Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly
- Sensing And Seizing Opportunity – “I had confidence in myself beforehand that something like that was going to happen. I just really waited for my opportunity for my opportunity to show the world what I could do.” – USC third-string quarterback Matt Fink
- Players Make The Plays – “At the end of the day the players make the plays on the field.” – Kirby Smart
- Play Your Own Game – “You can only talk so much about your opponent. You’ve got to go out and play your own game.” – Kelly
September 7th ESPN College Gameday
- Naivety – “You always dream growing up of being a professional athlete in whatever sport you play but you don’t realize you’re naive as a kid to all the things that come with that.” – Trevor Lawrence
- Being Rich Vs. Being Famous – “I always wanted to be rich but I never wanted to be famous.” – Lawrence
- Winning – “I love to go out there an practice. That’s my favorite part. Just competing. (Winning) is just a byproduct of what you put in. We expect to win. I think competing, the actual doing, is the fun part for me.” – Lawrence
- Confidence – “You get a massive amount of confidence when your coach believes you in to implement your ideas into the offense. But also there’s no excuses. It’s on me.”- LSU quarterback Joe Burrow
- “Have fun. Enjoy the journey. And that’s one thing I didn’t do always. I going to make sure I enjoy this journey.” – Mack Brown
- “Mack Brown is The Godfather.” – UNC defensive back Myles Dorn
- Trust And Credibility – “He told me he was going to make upgrades to the facilities and two months later he came through with his promise.” – Dorn
- Instilling Belief – “Mack Brown’s made the team believe in ourselves.” – UNC offensive lineman Charlie Heck
August 31st
Fox Sports College Football Preview August 31st
- Branding – “He gives you name recognition. He gives you energy. He’s on the recruiting trail. I just don’t know about the talent.” – Meyer on new Kansas head coach Les Miles
- “Execution matters. Effort matters. Toughness matters.” – Ohio State head coach Ryan Day
- Enhance What Is Working – “This is working. Let’s try to enhance that and if there’s some things we want to tweek along the way we can do that.” – Day
- Focus On What Is Working – “At the end of the day you try to find what your quarterback can do well. We installed everything and what he does best, we’ll focus on those.” – Day
August 24th ESPN College Gameday
- Next Year – “There’s always going to be next year. There’s always going to be another year to prove yourself.” – Trevor Lawrence
- Respect – “There’s a rivalry but you also have to respect the game of football. We are kicking off the 150th year of college football on the biggest stage you can have.” – Florida coach Dan Mullen
- “What’s going to make the biggest difference in the game is not the jawing and the yapping. It’s what we do between the whistles and if we do that we’re going to put ourselves in position to win the game.” – Mullen
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