Oail Andrew "Bum" Phillips
1923 - 2013
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Biography
Oail Andrew 'Bum' Phillips (1923-2013) was an American football coach known for his successful coaching career in the NFL. He achieved great recognition for his coaching stints with the Houston Oilers and the New Orleans Saints. Phillips was known for his charismatic personality, cowboy hat, and folksy sayings. He led the Houston Oilers to two consecutive AFC Championship games and was known for his innovative defensive strategies and player motivation techniques.
Famous Quotes (5)
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There's two kinds of coaches, them that's fired and them that's gonna be fired.
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Don't matter what they say, as long as you end up higher on the board than the board's looking at.
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Coaching is not how much you know. It's how much you can get players to do.
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Football is a game of failure. You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.
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Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.