SMU: 'It's unbelievable to think that kind of corruption came right from the top of the power structure. The NCAA did what it had to do' in canceling SMU's 1988 football season.

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.

Today, you've got a decision to make. You're gonna get better or you're gonna get worse, but you're not gonna stay the same. Which will it be?

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back.

They ask me what I'd like written about me when I'm gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach.

Keep hustling, something good will happen.

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

In hindsight, I wish I had done more.

A broken vessel cannot hold anything within itself, therefore only something supernatural can hold itself within a broken vessel.

If you didn't understand the need for friendship or love, could you be lonely?

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think all the walks I want to take all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see.

Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don’t we secretly clasp each other’s hands?

I was raised Irish Catholic and went to Holy Names Academy, an all-girl's private Catholic school. I loved the nuns there and I love them to this day.

We do not have to understand in order to believe that behind the mystery and the fascination there is love.

To make progress we have to build a multi-stakeholder process, harnessing the appropriate energies.

I don't really want to hang out with politicians. I'd rather go straight to hell, and not collect $200.

Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life.

I don't have a ticker-tape machine in my office.