If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load.

Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.

Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit.

Sure, I'd love to beat Notre Dame, don't get me wrong. But nothing matters more than beating that cow college on the other side of the state!

There is a big difference in wanting to and willing to.

Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.

I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.

Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.

The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.

Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.

I'm going to Ibiza with the lads! I’ll probably come back a raging alcoholic.

I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort of musical species.

Though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.

We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.

We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers.

If my father was alive to hear that, he'd turn over in his grave.