It's more fun when you shoot well and when you have a good score, but that's not a prerequisite to me for having a good time.

When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out - and it's been sold out ever since.

The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

There is no such thing as defeat except when it comes from within. As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated, he is not defeated-he's just a little behind and isn't through fighting.

The real make of a man is how he treats people who can do nothing for him.

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish

Dance with the one who brung ya.

The coach is the team, and the team is the coach. You reflect each other.

Potential just means you ain't done it yet.

Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo

My soul is like this cloudy, flaming opal ring.

Who needs evidence when you've got the Internet?

Youth is no less vulnerable, by the very quality it has of making the heart ache that beholds and has lost it.

My family was scientifically inclined: My brother did turn into a neurophysiologist, and I almost became a scientist myself. I could have gone that way.

You know what would help this boy?" Demeter mused. "Farming." Persephone rolled her eyes. "Mother-" "Six months behind a plow. Excellent character building.

The next time you feel like complaining, remember that your garbage disposal probably eats better than 30 percent of the people in the world

I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.