59 Joe Gibbs Quotes on Life & Winning (LEADERSHIP)

Top 10 Most Famous Joe Gibbs Quotes (BEST)

“The further you go in life, the more you realize what you’re going to leave this Earth. It’s not going to be, ‘It was a great platform. It was great to win the Super Bowl but really and truly what you’re going to leave on this Earth is the influence on others.”
Joe Gibbs

Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners. — **Failures** are expected by losers, ignored by winners.

A winning effort begins with preparation. — A **winning** **effort** begins with **preparation**.

“It’s what I lean on. Any time I feel down, like we all do, I think about that. Hey, this is where I’m supposed to be. There’s a confidence knowing that God has put you here, and it’s a matter of you living this, doing the best you can, working the hardest you can, trying to make it happen. Whether it’s going to happen or not, we don’t know.”
Joe Gibbs

People who enjoy what they do, invariably do it well.

The past doesn't buy you much. — The past doesn’t buy you much.

“You try to go within reason, and to make sure you’re doing smart things. And you take a long, hard look at a game like this and say, ‘Okay, what can we do to improve ourselves’ But I think we need to stay aggressive, and I think we all want to be aggressive.”
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To reach your own goals and dreams, you must learn how to assist others in reaching theirs. — To reach your own goals and **dreams**, you must **learn** how to assist others in reaching theirs.

You don’t win with X’s and O’s. What you win with is people.

Once you have a plan, you must sell it to the players.

5 Thought-Provoking Joe Gibbs Quotes

Part of playing the game of life is you're going to have some losses. — Part of playing the game of life is you’re going to have some losses.

To me, life is so exciting. To me, life is always trying to beat someone in something competitive. It's kinda been my whole life. — To me, life is so **exciting**. To me, life is always trying to beat someone in something **competitive**. It’s kinda been my whole life.

It's a very competitive thing, pro sports. The hardest thing in pro sports is staying up there. — It’s a very competitive thing, pro sports. The hardest thing in pro sports is staying up there.

The key to being a good manager or a good entrepreneur is to pick the right people. Pick the right people, and they'll make you look good. — The key to being a good manager or a good **entrepreneur** is to pick the right people. Pick the right people, and they’ll make you look good.

The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this Earth. — The further you go in life, the more you realize what you’re going to leave this Earth.

7 Joe Gibbs Quotes About God

“You and I are players, God’s our coach, and we’re playing the biggest game of all. We have a loving God that made us. We need to get on His team. It says in His word, there’s only one way to Him and that’s through Jesus Christ.”
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If you're on God's team, you can't lose. — If you’re on God’s team, you can’t lose.

If I keep God first in my life, if I keep my family and friends as second, and then I keep my occupation third, that's when I've found success. — If I keep God first in my life, if I keep my **family** and **friends** as second, and then I keep my occupation third, that’s when I’ve found **success**.

“My mother and grandmother had me in church, and I was the kid that played in church. But pastor was telling me something totally different that there was a God. He knit me together in my mother’s womb. He made me special. He wanted to have a personal relationship with me.”
Joe Gibbs

It does influence every part of your life and it influences every decision you make. (speaking about faith)

God made certain people to play football. He was one of them.

I want to say a big thanks to our fans for all they did for us to get here. I feel humbled and really thankful. The Lord has blessed us with a great bunch of guys. — I want to say a big **thanks** to our fans for all they did for us to get here. I feel **humbled** and really thankful. The Lord has **blessed** us with a great bunch of guys.

6 Joe Gibbs Quotes About Coaching

“I love coaching my grandkids, but I love working with my two sons. J.D. is the head coach, and I’m the assistant – you believe that? I missed so much of them growing up. I really messed up there. So I like working with J.D. and Coy. I’m trying not to do the same thing again. With J.D. and Coy, I missed so much.”
Joe Gibbs

I coached in Washington - and in Washington, you lose the ballgame, it's a bad Monday, I just want to tell you that. — I coached in Washington – and in Washington, you lose the ballgame, it’s a bad Monday, I just want to tell you that.

“This isn’t an easy lifestyle for a coach’s wife. The coach is the guy who stands up and hears everyone tell him how great he is. The wife is the one waiting at home alone while the coach is spending every night at the office.”
Joe Gibbs

As a coach, you feel like you're letting everybody down. — As a coach, you feel like you’re letting everybody down.

“I wound up through a wild set of circumstances getting into coaching. I went in and volunteered with Don Coryell, who was a big part of my past, great coach. A lot of people say he was one of the greatest coaches ever. He was very good in high school, college and pro. Another guy on that staff was named John Madden.”
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10 Joe Gibbs About Football

“It will allow me to focus on things where I can help the football team. It’s tough when you’re in meetings and the coaches are waiting on you. I can already see that we’re farther down the road on some things by doing what we’re doing.”
Joe Gibbs

Any time you get into the playoffs, it's a huge deal. — Any time you get into the playoffs, it’s a huge deal.

Any time you lose, it's tough. There are always 50 plays where you could have won and 50 plays where you could have lost. — Any time you lose, it’s tough. There are always 50 plays where you could have won and 50 plays where you could have lost.

“Every week we’ve had four or five opportunities to get balls in our hands and we have not been able to, for whatever reason, to either get the fumble or get the interception. I don’t know how to explain it. But it’s put us in a real bind because you’re not going to play on that side of the giveaway and takeaway ratio and win many football games.”
Joe Gibbs

Any time you don't play special teams, it hurts you. You've got to be a legit starter if you're going to do that. — Any time you don’t play special teams, it hurts you. You’ve got to be a legit starter if you’re going to do that.

At the end, there was some unbelievable plays. It really took my breath away.

“We wish the last two years had been smoother. We wish there had been no injuries. We wish he could have played more and played back to the standard where he wanted to be. I know he was totally frustrated by it.”
Joe Gibbs

Their defense is tough. We know it's going to be stacked against us, but at least we have the opportunity and the chance. — Their defense is tough. We know it’s going to be stacked against us, but at least we have the opportunity and the chance.

“The center picked the ball up a little bit and we felt like we got it off right when he picked it up. We probably looked at it 30 times in there with Danny and I’d say we kind of got right off on it. That could have won it for us.”
Joe Gibbs

“I like it that after that first Monday, it’s all Sundays until the last Saturday, but I think they should have a rule that if you play on Monday night, you should get to play at home the next week.”
Joe Gibbs

10 Joe Gibbs Quotes About Players

“I had great football players. To be quite truthful, my great football players, the ones who wanted the ball at the end of the games, they weren’t focused on money. They want to do something great. They want to go to Pro Bowls. They want to win Super Bowls. Those are the people that succeed in sports or in business.”
Joe Gibbs

Look for players with character and ability. But remember, character comes first. — Look for players with **character** and ability. But remember, character comes first.

It was just a general feeling I have. I'm looking for someone to really establish themselves as the quarterback, take over and take off with the team. — It was just a general feeling I have. I’m looking for someone to really establish themselves as the quarterback, take over and take off with the team.

“All of us that have teams want to pick the right people. I’ve thought a lot about that. In the NFL, we’ve got 13 scouts traveling the country. We’re trying to pick 22 year-olds coming out of college who will be successful in the NFL. It’s very hard to do. What I’ve learned is it’s always character first.”
Joe Gibbs

I'm looking for someone to establish himself as our quarterback. — I’m looking for someone to establish himself as our quarterback.

“He just has to do his part. He doesn’t have to do any more than that. He directs the offense and gets us points. He doesn’t have to try to make something happen by himself.”
Joe Gibbs

“Once you have a plan, you must sell it to the players. It is not enough to put it on the blackboard and say, ‘Okay, here it is.’ You have to convince the players that the plan is a good one and show them, in specific ways, why it will work. If you do, you send them out to the practice field with more confidence.”
Joe Gibbs

“My impression is that he’s very accurate. I think he’s going to be a guy that can really roam with the football. He’s going to make plays with his feet. I think he has a sense of what the pocket is. He’ll slide. He’s going to be hard to sack because he’s so big. We’ve seen a lot out of him. Now he needs to play.”
Joe Gibbs

“He was a real thin, real great-in-shape guy. Our heart goes out when something like that happens. You usually just imagine one of our guys. It just devastates everybody. It’s a huge loss to everybody.”
Joe Gibbs

“If I’m somebody that says the team is important and the players and coaches need to sacrifice and I then see an opportunity to help the football team and don’t do it. I would be going against the basic principal of what I preach.”
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11 Joe Gibbs Quotes That Will Make You Think

“I can’t remember if it was in the third grade in school, I was being told that two amoeba happened to hit in a muddy puddle of water two billion years ago, and I was an accident. I was the result. I wasn’t real smart, but I said, ‘I don’t like the sound of that.’.”
Joe Gibbs

I'm a phys ed major that's ballroom dancing and handball. — I’m a phys ed major: that’s ballroom **dancing** and handball.

I'll tell you what - if you attend a Cowboy-Redskins game, you better not leave 'til that clock hits zero. — I’ll tell you what – if you attend a Cowboy-Redskins game, you better not leave ’til that clock hits zero.

“I had a basketball net that my dad had put up outside. I went out there and dribbled all day long. I wanted to play basketball. Then I’d go baseball, and then I’d go to football. I remember playing football in a plowed field. I grew up going from one thing to the next wanting to play something.”
Joe Gibbs

Not very good ones, I'll tell you that. We always seemed to have a tough time against them. — Not very good ones, I’ll tell you that. We always seemed to have a tough time against them.

I'm not a karma guy. I don't believe in any kind of luck, either. We've been fortunate. I would say that. — I’m not a **karma** guy. I don’t believe in any kind of **luck**, either. We’ve been fortunate. I would say that.

“I do like that fact that the bye is in the middle of the season. I think that’s the best place to have it. I like that once we get past the season-opening Monday night game, they’re all Sundays and evenly spread out that way until we get to that last Saturday night.”
Joe Gibbs

I will be honest and say that I've never seen a schedule I like. — I will be **honest** and say that I’ve never seen a schedule I like.

I like our attitude. I like the fact that we have a lot of fight to us. — I like our **attitude**. I like the fact that we have a lot of fight to us.

“We’ll let Patrick go this weekend. I felt we needed to give Patrick a shot. Hopefully he’ll play great for us and we’re all going to support him. We’re going to give him all the work in practice. He’s got a tough assignment this weekend in trying to lead us against Philly.”
Joe Gibbs