I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

Courage means being afraid to do something, but still doing it.

If winning isn't everything why bother to keep the score?

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

Leaders are like eagles... they don't flock. You'll find them one at a time.

Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.

On the road we're somebody else's guests - and we play in a way that they're not going to forget we visited them.

Dogs speak words, but only poets and children Hear.

I read somewhere that when you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

Ignorance is toxic.

When I consider writing I sometimes wonder why doesn't everybody do it, other times I wonder why does anybody do it.

Bumper sticker: My kid beat the heck out of the student of the month.

You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge.

Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity.

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

I wish my father could be around.

For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning.