Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

Courage means being afraid to do something, but still doing it.

If winning isn't everything why bother to keep the score?

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

Leaders are like eagles... they don't flock. You'll find them one at a time.

On the road we're somebody else's guests - and we play in a way that they're not going to forget we visited them.

The secret of winning is working more as a team, less as individuals.

Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.

These powerless people at the bottom are the ones with whom we must begin. They must have the insight and the knowledge to work together and recognise that they are on the right track.

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God.

The best exercise in the world is to bend down and help someone up.

I think seeing films should be interactive. I'd rather have people see a film that I'm in and either absolutely love it or absolutely hate it, than be like, "Oh, yeah, it was good." That's the worst!

Courtroom dramas can be boring.

To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.

Healthy vanity sweeps through life. Sickly vanity lies in bed.

It is said that love is blind. Friendship, on the other hand, is clairvoyant.