If you think there is such a thing as an unimportant game, just try losing one.

You don't have to flaunt your success, but you don't have to apologize for it, either

The expectation level is high at the University of Alabama and it should be. What's wrong with people expecting excellence?

If it seems like you can see farther than most people, it is because you're standing on shoulders of giants.

I'm seldom right, but I'm never in doubt.

I guess that makes our biggest weakness lack of strength.

Coach (Bear) Bryant wanted to see who was tough in the spring, who he could count on in the fall.

Faith doesn't have to be much. Not any bigger than a mustard seed... That small. Only that much faith you'll need in me, God says, because I am so big. I am the Great I Am. So have faith in me.

That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: 'At least I galloped - when did you?

I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.

Every day I spend in Hollywood I start to realize how many films are made with no heart and no love. They just do it for the paycheck and I cannot imagine making a film that way.

It is not the style but the quality and emotional impact of work that makes it marketable. Unless we make art that connects with people, we won't sell much, no matter what the style or subject.

I feel like I'm being too Zen. I'm inhaling too much patchouli and incense. It's embarrassing.

I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.

I'm a Cancer, which means I'm maternal and emotional. So in relationships I'm screwed.

I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible.

Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become.