I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

A champion is simply someone who did not give up when he wanted to.

Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do but to achieve what they want to achieve.

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence.

To live a disciplined life, and to accept the result of that discipline as the will of God - that is the mark of a man.

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

You don't decide what your purpose is in life you discover it. Your purpose is your reason for living.

Every bit of you, Lass, that's what I want...

You don't have to be great to get started but you have to get started to be great.

I'm so sick and tired of hearing about slavery. You think slavery didn't exist in Africa? Even Indian tribes.

I don't know how many years I can still play. I have to listen to my body and see how it feels.

They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened.

It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation.

The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive.

I feel like a stone you have picked up and thrown to the hard rock bottom of your heart.

You avoid the hype while you're working, you have to, but the premiere is the one night of the year where you can enjoy it.