[Ads-l] Adage: Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing (Red Sanders, Nov. 9, 1948)

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Barry Popik located a new citation for the saying in the subject line.
In 1948 “The Birmingham News” of Alabama reported on a speech
delivered by football coach Henry ‘Red’ Sanders of Vanderbilt
University in Nashville, Tennessee. Sanders spoke to a group of
football enthusiasts called the Quarterback Club who had convened for
a luncheon at The Tutwiler Hotel in Birmingham:

[ref] 1948 November 9, The Birmingham News, Sanders Gives Prescription
For His Grid Success—Material by Jerry Bryan (Assistant Sports Editor
of The Birmingham News), Quote Page 22, Column 5, Birmingham, Alabama.
(Newspapers_com) [/ref]

[Begin excerpt]
SANDERS WRYLY told the QBs that coaching today is a day to day
proposition and there is no place in football for losing. “I think
with the fans winning isn’t everything,” he said. “It’s the only
thing.”
[End excerpt]

It seems that the first instance was a comical barb aimed at zealous
fans combined with a commentary on the precarious nature of coaching.
Sanders was not presenting a philosophy of life.

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