Lee Roy was the best college linebacker - bar none. He would have made every tackle on every play if they had stayed in bounds.

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.

I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.

It was the literary equivalent of a brown paper bag.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

It's better to have 100 people love you than to have 1,000,000 people like you.

Please, God. Help me. Take this pain away. Please fill this loneliness with your love. Help me, God, please, help me.

During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance?

We must be both rational and intellectual, both analytic and imaginative, utilizing both statistics and insight.

It's harder to say 'no' when you really mean it.

The most glaring deficiency in traditional economic models is that they completely ignore the role of context in evaluation.

Most actors go, I read the script and fell in love with it; I fall in love with the directors.