The Best Coach Gary Gaines Quotes

Coach: Hey, hey son! Come here. Where are you going?
Chris: You don't want me to go in Coach?
Coach: You're not wearing a helmet?
[Comer realizes he has no helmet on]
Coach: My goodness gracious!

Coach: I've seen you fight. I've seen you not quit. Can you give me a great effort and just a little bit more. Can you be perfect?

Coach: Being perfect is not about that scoreboard out there. It's not about winning. It's about you and your relationship with yourself, your family and your friends. Being perfect is about being able to look your friends in the eye and know that you didnt let them down because you told them the truth. And that truth is you did everything you could. There wasnt one more thing you could've done. Can you live in that moment as best you can, with clear eyes, and love in your heart, with joy in your heart? If you can do that gentleman - you're perfect!

Coach: [half time speech] Perfection is being able to look your friends in the eye and know you did everything you could not to let them down.

Coach: Being perfect is when you can look someone in the eye and know you did not let them down.

Coach: Gentlemen, the hopes and dreams of an entire town are riding on your shoulders. You may never matter again in your life as much as you do right now.

Coach: We're in the business of winning.

Coach: So how is it out there?
Ivory: They're fast, they're big, they're dirty... plus they're fast.
Coach: You said that already.

Coach: Everything all right?
John: Everything's going to be just fine. Everything's all right as long as we win state.
Coach: Or what?

Coach: You quit reading your press clippings, all right? Because you're smaller, and you're gonna be smaller every week. Ain't gonna be no growth spurt between now and the first game. They're gonna underestimate you every single week. We teach you this technique for a reason. We do not do this to make our heads rattle. You're gonna use your mind. You're gonna play with your heart. That's what you're gonna use to win the State Championship.

Coach: [to quarterback Mike Winchell] You're playing like the village idiot! You want people to think of you as the village idiot?

Jennifer: Are we going to move again?
Sharon: No, honey.
Coach: Possibly.

Coach: [half-time speech] I want you to take a moment, and I want you to look each other in the eyes. I want you to put each other in your hearts forever because forever is about to happen here in just a few minutes. I want you to close your eyes, and I want you to think about Boobie Miles, who is your brother. And he would die to be out there in that field with you tonight. And I want you to put that in your hearts. Boys my heart is full. My heart is full.

Mike: You ever feel cursed, Coach? Like, no matter what, inside your heart you feel that you're gonna lose. Like something's hanging over you, following you like a witch or a demon that just... I feel like that all the time. Even when things are going good. When we're winnin', it's there. And when we're losin', it's there.
Coach: It took me a long time to realize that, uh, there ain't much difference between winnin' and losin' except for how the outside world treats you. But inside you, it's about all the same, you know. It really is. Fact of matter is I believe that our only curses are the ones that are self-imposed. You know what I'm sayin'? We, all of us, dig our own holes.