I continually stress to my players that all I expect from them at practice and in the games is their maximum effort.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Passion is momentary love is enduring.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

[Colin to Sugar Beth] I put my heart on every page.

If the work is worthwhile, then whether we can complete it or not, it's worth making the attempt. That's why courage is important.

Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10 years, am still doing it. And I do some work for the Cubs, in community relations.

Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.

To wonder where the mind goes after the brain decays is as silly as asking where the 70-miles-per-hour have gone after a speeding auto has crashed into a tree.

I think all artists secretly hope their kids might do something safer and straitlaced: maybe my daughter 'll be a banker.

I will make time to eat every day. I couldn't do as much as I do, actually, if I didn't eat.

The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.

If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves.

I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it