Chuck Pagano Quotes

United States, American Football Player
October 2, 1960

Charles David Pagano (born October 2, 1960) is an American football coach and former player. He was the head coach of the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL) from 2012 to 2017, and also served as the defensive coordinator for the Baltimore Ravens in 2011. He is the older brother of Houston Texans Outside Linebackers coach John Pagano. After the Colts fired him following the 2017 season, Pagano took time off from coaching, working as a consultant for the NFL.

Also known as American Football Manager

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

Chuck Pagano
- Running
- Rest
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

If you don't have your health, you don't have anything.

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

Chuck Pagano
- Up
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
- Up
- Growing
- Dad
You have some dark days and dark moments going through chemo and things like that.

Chuck Pagano
- Moments
- Dark
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
- Life
- Up
- Family

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
- People
- God
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
- Different
- Goals
When you have things taken away, you promise you'll never take anything for granted ever again.

Chuck Pagano
- Taken
- Promise
I am the luckiest man in the world.

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

Chuck Pagano
- Game
I've always been a religious person.

Chuck Pagano
- Religious

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

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

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

Chuck Pagano