Chuck Noll Quotes

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Leaving the game plan is a sign of panic, and panic is not in our game plan.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Joe Gordon, the team’s longtime public relations director, said he would be right over. The Rooneys had hired Gordon in 1969, the same year they had hired Chuck Noll, in an effort to upgrade the previously dismal franchise. Gordon was a Pittsburgh native who had played varsity baseball at Pitt and whose hard-knuckle attitude fit perfectly with the brawling team. In the days preceding the 1976 AFC Championship Game against the hated Raiders, Gordon decked an Oakland TV reporter. Asked the next day if his team was ready, Noll said, “I don’t know, but Joe Gordon is.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning. Chuck Noll