Legacy of Winning
Authors: Phillip Fulmer, Gerald D. Sentell
Release: 1996
Tagline: It Doesn’t All Happen on Game Day
Publisher: Pressmark International
Genre: Sports, Biography, Business
ISBN-10: 1883999065
ISBN-13: 978-1883999063
Synopsis: A business book disguised as a football biography about Tennessee Volunteer Football Head Coach Phillip Fulmer.
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Quotes and Lines
…high performance leaders know that “making sure the right things are done right” does not mean they become personally involved with everything going on. – Gerald D. Sentell
Coaching is not about getting wealthy, and it’s not about me. It’s about us. It’s about sharing, loving, and caring. It’s about unity and achieving together, winning on and off the field, and using the lessons learned in all aspects of life. – Phillip Fulmer
In the future, it may become more of a challenge to keep Tennessee football in the forefront. With the arrival of the Houston Oilers, Nashville will become a professional sports city. We’ll just have to work a little harder to get intense coverage throughout the state. It’s up to us to take on that challenge and to do a better job than we’ve ever done before. – Haywood Harris
Empowerment is a frequently used but poorly understood term. To empower is to transfer sufficient authority so that individuals or groups can fulfill their responsibilities. In delivery processes people are empowered to fulfill the organization’s responsibility to the “customer.” In all internal processes people are empowered to fulfill the responsibility to the entities that receive the output of their process. – Gerald Sentell
One thing we all have to remember: It’s not important what the head coach knows or what the assistant coaches know; it’s what the players know that counts. All coaches must always stay within the framework of that fundamental truth. – Phillip Fulmer
There is usually very little difference between being on top and being farther down in the standings. For example, a 10-year study of professional football teams showed that Super Bowl teams averaged one yard more per rushing play than teams that didn’t go to the Super Bowl. Such small differences between the best and the rest demonstrates why details are so important and every play is critical. – Phillip Fulmer
The performance of U.S. organizations of all kinds has been the subject of intense criticism for more than two decades. These criticisms can be boiled down to the fact that most organizations–public and private, business and educational, government and non-government–have been “overmanaged and underled.” – Gerald Sentell
..as Theodore Roosevelt said, “The best leader is the one who has the sense enough to pick good people…and the self-restraint to keep from meddling with them.” – Gerald Sentell
“People are born originals, but many times we end up copies. As much as we can, we have to work really hard to avoid that on an individual basis. We have to maintain our uniqueness.” – Phillip Fulmer