I don't count on the boy who waits till October, when it's cool and fun, then decides he wants to play.

When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out - and it's been sold out ever since.

The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

There is no such thing as defeat except when it comes from within. As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated, he is not defeated-he's just a little behind and isn't through fighting.

The real make of a man is how he treats people who can do nothing for him.

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish

Dance with the one who brung ya.

The coach is the team, and the team is the coach. You reflect each other.

Potential just means you ain't done it yet.

Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.

The fun part is finding which thoughts, in that crazy beehive of emotion, are the ones that mass produce the honey.

I really admire the experimentalists who challenge traditional narrative - writers like Ishmael Reed, Michael Martone, Donald Barthelme, Tatyana Tolstaya, George Saunders, and many others.

People have no tolerance. They think all bugs are bad. It's the American way. If you don't like something, kill it.

. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.

The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.

We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted for who you are.

The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty and both - precision and certainty are impossible to attain.

The Bhagavadgita is a gospel of non-co-operation between the forces of darkness and those of light.

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.

Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.