Everybody's got to do what they've got to do.

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

Work hard, stay focused and surround yourself with good people.

My hardest job is to convince the people of Nebraska that 10-1 is not a losing season.

I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. By the time I get to the locker room, I'm done.

Know how to win and how to lose and be able to handle adversity.

Have a spiritual basis which guides you in life. Have a philosophy of life to live by.

As a college coach, I felt you could make a difference in a player's life. There was an educational aspect I thought was important.

Our people were not happy. I knew at some point we were going to win. It's a little unfair, but that's the reality. To some degree, it became a one-game season for some folks.

It is important that voters be as informed as possible when they enter the polls May 9 to determine who has the experience, integrity and vision to lead Nebraska to excellence.

When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement

Every event in one’s life has a lesson to teach. The thoughtful imbibe the lesson and forget the incident. The thoughtless forget the lesson but keep thinking about the event.

Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose.

I'm competitive with myself, not at the expense of everything around me. I never wanted to be a movie star. I just wanted to act.

From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.

Nobody knows the world of emotion I'm inhabiting right now.

No person is too hardened.

Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.

Males are the most incomprehensible species.

The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.

Pat answers to complex problems are the hallmark of intellectual mediocrity