Earl Blaik Quotes

United States, Football Player
February 15, 1897 – May, 6, 1989.

Earl Henry "Red" Blaik (February 15, 1897 – May 6, 1989) was an American football player, coach, college athletics administrator, and United States Army officer. He served as the head football coach at Dartmouth College from 1934 to 1940 and at the United States Military Academy from 1941 to 1958, compiling a career college football record of 166–48–14.

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The champion makes his own luck.

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- Champion
Good guys are a dime a dozen, but an aggressive leader is priceless.

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- Good

The essence of the game is not "fun," but the soul-satisfying awareness that comes from communal work and sacrifice.

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- Work
- Fun
- Soul
You don't develop good teeth by eating mush.

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- Good
Golf has humbled, humiliated, and just about licked all the great athletes who tried it.

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- Great
- Golf
There never was a champion who to himself was a good loser. There's a vast difference between a good sport and a good loser.

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- Good
- Champion