Old ugly is better than old nothin'

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.

To become a better you, admit that you were not born for the floor. Refuse to embrace mediocrity anytime anywhere.

No two readers can or will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaboration with the author.

Gold, or at least the prospect of it, saved him, then killed him.

It is in the nature of helping and counselling to be a process moving towards something rather than arriving at a state of completion.

All Hillary Clinton's done is talk to the African-Americans and to the Latinos, but they get the vote, and then they come back, they say, we'll see you in four years.

I feel like every job teaches us something...

Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.

When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.

I am learning that a man can live profoundly without masses of things.

Stop searching here and there, the jewels are inside YOU.