Chuck Pagano Quotes & Sayings

When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?' — Chuck Pagano

I've got so many things coming across my desk right now that are nonfootball related, I can't stand it. — Chuck Pagano

We all have circumstances, choose not to live in your circumstance, but live in your vision! — Chuck Pagano

I've always just tried to treat people with respect, build relationships with players and coaches ... build a trust. — Chuck Pagano

If you don't have your health, you don't have anything. — Chuck Pagano

When you get chemo, some people get a lot of sores in their mouth and even their esophagus, so they chew on ice; thank God that didn't happen with me. — Chuck Pagano

YOU WILL! YOU CAN! YOU MUST! YOU HAVE NO CHOICE. BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. YOU WILL OVERCOME. — Chuck Pagano

We have to know that nothing is promised, nothing is guaranteed, especially tomorrow. — Chuck Pagano

You have some dark days and dark moments going through chemo and things like that. — Chuck Pagano

I grew up in a football family, on the sideline. I was a waterboy. It was kinda something I was around my whole life. — Chuck Pagano

When you have things taken away, you promise you'll never take anything for granted ever again. — Chuck Pagano

Circumstances don't make you, they reveal you . — Chuck Pagano

With expectations, when you throw that stuff out there, when you put a bunch of pressure on yourself to reach those goals, you don't do anything different. You just keep working to get better. — Chuck Pagano

You're defined by how you play the game, not by the game itself. — Chuck Pagano

My vision is that I'm living to see two more daughters get married, dance at their weddings and then lift the Lombardi Trophy several times. — Chuck Pagano

But regardless of our circumstances, they do not define us - not unless we give in and let them. Circumstances never determine who we are; they reveal who we are. — Chuck Pagano

If you're running on fumes, you get to a point of diminishing results. Get some rest. — Chuck Pagano

I've always been a religious person. — Chuck Pagano

I am the luckiest man in the world. — Chuck Pagano

I know that there are coaches who do end up sleeping on the sofa in their office. — Chuck Pagano

If I can encourage and get somebody to get through what they're dealing with, their set of circumstances, that's the right thing to do. — Chuck Pagano