The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.

When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out - and it's been sold out ever since.

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.

You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.

Technically, you don't pay me.And technically, most of what I do is "think."I...rrr. ummm.And when you get right down to it, I'm better at it than you are.-Ennesby & Captain Tagon

Do you want to resolve a conflict successfully? Don't wait, start a conversation.

I don't think about one trick or the other, they just happen.

Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.

Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.

I think the endeavor is to just make your film and then hope it travels as much as it can.

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.

This gets back to the fundamental lesson of political survival that Bill Clinton taught me, which is if you make it about the American people's lives instead of your life, you're going to be okay.

When I lose my larger sense of supporting people to be their best, I lessen my contact with the God inside me.

Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius.