“I’ll call somebody ‘dumb’ or ‘stupid’ if they make a dumb or stupid play. I don’t know any other word for it, and if they don’t like the word, that’s too bad.”

You are what your record says you are.

No matter how much you’ve won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you’re not winning now, so you stink.

We’re not playing solitaire out here.

I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.

Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy

Success is never final, but failure can be.

What sets disciplined people apart? – The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.

My expectations are greater than the average fan’s but, I’m more realistic than the top prognosticators.

When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, ‘Do you think I’m Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?’ After that, they called me Tuna.

Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It’s one thing to hate failure, it’s another to fear it.

You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.

Don’t ever let good enough be good enough.

If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

Never let the world define you as less than Great.

Well, I’ve had a long standing relationship with Gatorade and they’ve been very, very good to me. And I believe in their products, I really do. I’ve used them for many, many years.

I don’t look at a problem and put variables in there that don’t affect it.

This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.

A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.

It’s modern-day slavery.

Their messages are loud and clear: LET US OUT AND LEAVE US ALONE!!!

The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.

And, in the future, while the dumb show of bohemianism plays itself out in the cookie cutter shape of the politically correct martyr/victim, aesthetic terrorists will not involve themselves in the dubious rewards of celebrity.

I don’t want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of ‘Idiocracy’ and ‘Borat,’ without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.

The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there’s a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left.