As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment.

When you win, nothing hurts.

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.

If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?

My family's the most important thing in my life.

Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.

I don't know whether I prefer Astroturf to grass. I never smoked Astroturf.

You learn you can do your best even when its hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

I can't wait until tomorrow 'cause I get better looking every day.

I've got news for you. We're gonna win the game. I guarantee it.

What are stories for if we don't learn from them?

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

I'm a people's person, believe it or not. I just have a dark side to me, which we all do.

The abyss is full of reality, the abyss experiences itself, the abyss is alive.

My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.

Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance.

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.

Consistently ask yourself: 'Is what I'm doing right now working for me or working against me?

In law school they teach you that everything is a contract; well, in poetry everything is a narrative.

It's more difficult now, to be a Geographic photographer, than it was when I came along. And it wasn't easy at that time.