Every day I've got to get up and make a decision. I have an opportunity every day to affect young men and the coaches that are around me, the entire organization and the entire community.

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.

Before we can talk about a championship, we have to practice like a championship team.

I am sure there is a right way and a wrong way and in today's life, there are many different rules of being politically correct.

You never really know about a quarterback until he plays in a real game.

If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.

You want to learn everything that you possibly can, chew it, digest it, and take it for what it is, and then move on.

I want winners. I want people that want to win.

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.

Nobody intimidates me.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well

I know very little about darkness, Mr Bowden, except that we cannot stop its coming.

Breathing seemed harder in the cemetery, and selfish, somehow...

There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. There's a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful.

Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.

The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human life from conception to natural death.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

I can't believe I've been doing it so long. In the last three or four years, I've slowed down. I'm doing only the roles I really want to do.

It's unbelievable I'm swimming so fast. I went in with no expectations. I just went out hoping to get a personal best. I went out there with a smile, just to have fun and see what would happen.

It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.