I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.

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.

If you can't focus then how do you expect to make your dreams come true?

My life is very simple because I don't allow worldly things to control my feelings and emotions. Neither do I waste my time and energy seeking for any approval other than that of my inner-self.

Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)

The challenge to people like me is, how do you use your capabilities and resources to help support things that are important to you, whether it's the arts or education or homelessness?

I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.

Successful people are not people without problems. They are people who have learned to solve their problems.

It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.

None but the dead have free speech.

If you don't fight the system, you can either take advantage of the system or let the system take advantage of you.

No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very early age, before reading.