The bats inebriate the sky . . .

You don't have to flaunt your success, but you don't have to apologize for it, either

The expectation level is high at the University of Alabama and it should be. What's wrong with people expecting excellence?

If it seems like you can see farther than most people, it is because you're standing on shoulders of giants.

If you think there is such a thing as an unimportant game, just try losing one.

Nothing is more permanent than the temporary.

I'm seldom right, but I'm never in doubt.

I guess that makes our biggest weakness lack of strength.

Coach (Bear) Bryant wanted to see who was tough in the spring, who he could count on in the fall.

Hollywood-a place where the inmates are in charge of the asylum.

Boy, you'll have a fair trial. Race, creed or color, justice will be done in my courtroom.

It appeared that the swift wings of their desires would have shattered against the iron gates of the impossible.

No political body is sacred, sustainable or under protection, which allows the exploitation of its weakest citizens.

Some people feel, you make your case, if they listen to you, fine, if they don't, that's it. That's not what leadership is. Leadership is trying to continue to make a case.

He was bested by a better fighter, ...I didn't feel like he was intimidated. If I made a mistake he would have punished me.

You and me have a better time than most can dream of, better than the best.

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.

With the style of music that I do, I don't think it's at the top of their agenda to push me into doing any compromising material.

No athletic director holds office longer than two losing football coaches.

I'll do whatever it takes to win.