A successful person never loses...they either win or learn!

It's not just about working hard, it's about working together. You have to care more about the team than you do about yourself

You've gotta learn to love the grind. Because life IS the grind.

If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont recruit them

I need people who look at adversity as a challenge and failure as a learning opportunity.

It's not about how far you fall, but how high you rebound.

Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach can't drive that

I'm playing the guys who are going to fight. If you're not into this, I'm going to someone else

You understand, you do not invent stuff on this team. Guys that invent stuff will not play for me. Make the easy play

The best teams I've had had a little bit of swagger.

When you're trying to build or change a culture, what do you do? I always say to take players from state championship teams because they only know one thing -- winning.

Historically, Alaska is a place that has attracted those fed up with conventionality.

It keeps you fit - the alcohol, nasty women, sweat on stage, bad food - it's all very good for you.

It's like they say in the Internet world — if you're doing the same thing today you were doing six months ago, you're doing the wrong thing. Parents can learn a lot from that.

Why don't you lay the footpaths where the students want to walk?

I'm in a contented, loving relationship, but that doesn't mean I'm not struggling with other things that are going on around me in the world.

I voted for you during your last election.

A nation of ants, morose, frigid, and still preserving the same dread of happiness and joy as in the days of John Knox.

Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.

Unfortunately we have tried to establish Right by Might, and you can 't do that.

I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.