I never use the word 'hero' in sports. Hero is way above 'star.' I save 'star' for sports. Sports is entertainment that's all it is.

A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order.

The tragedy in sports is seeing a team beaten not by a better team, but by themselves.

If you have something critical to sat to a player, preface it by saying something positive. That way when you get to the criticism, at least you know he'll be listening.

We have no leadership. They rule by herd. Nobody is in charge. It reminds me of a bunch of cows.

Legislators are interested in their pet projects, getting re-elected, and popularity contests.

If you’re supposed to work with someone, I’d recommend not getting all hot and bothered with them the night before. The word of the day was “tense.

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. And I have asked to be where no storms come.

I believe in fate and I believe you were supposed to walk into my life, so Mason could walk into yours.

Be modest, be humble, be simple.Make sure you come in first so that you have something to be humble about.

I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision, and imagination of a high order.

Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all.

I have always had this necessity to win. When I played with my friends on the street, football or running, I always wanted to be the best.

The only time a bachelor's bed is made is when it's in the factory.

Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.

We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again." ~Fiddler, pg. 558