In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory.

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.

What once were vices are now manners.

It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism.

Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.

The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.

I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism.

I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.

The Jesus of the Gospels is surely not convenient for us.

You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends.

I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.

Look em in the eye. Make a gesture of inclusion, which he did all the time. And above all, have a chorus. So I learned from Pete Seeger to have something for them to sing.