It is so easy to be average. It takes a little something to be special. Why be around average?

If you can raise the level of effort and performance in those around you, you are officially a leader.

I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved. Well-prepared players make plays. I have yet to be in a game where the most prepared team didn't win.

At the end of the day, I'm very convinced that you're going to be judged on how you are as a husband and as a father and not on how many bowl games we won.

Elite warriors, when they accomplish their mission, they celebrate.

I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved.

I have ignored my health for years, but recent developments have forced me to re-evaluate my priorities of faith and family.

The future is bright at Ohio State.

You don't get 5 years to build a team any more. You get 2 if you're lucky.

I don't like disrespecting other teams.

Anyone can run the option. I can run the option.

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

Often it takes that “knife in our heart” to drive us to Him. Our faith, our very lives, depend on God, and when we enter the valley of grief, we need His help or we will never climb another mountain.

You're something between a dream and a miracle.

I love being able to sing for my job. I am blessed beyond words and I hope my fans can feel that while I'm on stage!

Watch out for love (unless it is true, and every part of you says yes including the toes), it will wrap you up like a mummy, and your scream won't be heard and none of your running will run.

The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up.

How can I play baseball if I'm stupid? If I was stupid I wouldn't have pitched in the World Series. I'd be playing ball in Mexico or Yugoslavia or on Pluto.

Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.

No one automatically gives you respect just because you show up. You have to earn it

Prayer must emanate from the heart, where God resides, and not from the head where doctrines and doubts clash.