Coach Urban Meyer has led Ohio State to a terrific 50-4 record over four years at Ohio State, including a National Championship. What makes Coach Meyer tick? The fingerprints of great coaches show competitiveness, drive, exceptional teaching, and unwillingness to be satisfied with the status quo.
Here are a sampling of Meyer quotes:
"Leadership is influence based on trust that you have earned. A true leader is someone who is going someplace and taking people with him, a catalyst for elite performance who enables people to achieve things they wouldn’t achieve on their own."
"Good leaders have a plan. Exceptional leaders have a system."
“It is so easy to be average. We don’t want to coach average.”
"The best teams I’ve ever coached, the best players, are the ones who are always trying to prove something."
"A team with purpose is a hard team to beat."
"It is so easy to be average. It takes a little something to be special."
"If you can raise the level of effort and performance in those around you, you are officially a leader."
"It's competition. It's putting them in environments where I want to see who the fighters are..."
