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Here, I have an opportunity to affect the lives of a lot of young people - and not just on my football team. I'm not kidding myself that that would be true at the professional level.

~Joe Paterno

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I don't think it's fair to 12-, 13- and 14-year-olds to say 'Show us you're a winner right now!' Winning isn't everything. I'll never buy that thing that if a boy loses a football game, he's a loser in life.

~Joe Paterno

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I've had a wonderful experience here at Penn State.

~Joe Paterno

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To teach an academic subject is certainly not easy, but compared to coaching, it is. We can say 'two plus two is four' to every kid and be sure that we are right. But in coaching, we have to literally get to the soul of the people we are dealing with.

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Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.

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Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back.

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What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence over young people than anybody but their families. And, in a lot of cases, more than their families.

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Coaches have got to be given rank within the university so that you can't fire a coach unless you go through an academic committee, just as you would with a professor. If coaches are to have any stability and security, they need to be treated like an English professor.

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You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

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The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Coach

Born: December 21st, 1926

Died: January 22nd, 2012

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