The summer day is closed, the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours, The latest of whose train goes softly out In the red west.

It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load.

Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.

Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit.

Sure, I'd love to beat Notre Dame, don't get me wrong. But nothing matters more than beating that cow college on the other side of the state!

There is a big difference in wanting to and willing to.

Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.

I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.

Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.

The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it.

This book was written using 100% recycled words.

Seven Ways to Live Your Life:Love unconditionallyForgive kindlyLive profoundlyGive joyfullyThink carefullyHug compassionatelyInspire passionately

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.

I'm ain't crazy to be normal

We aged a hundred years, and this happened in a single hour: the short summer had already died, the body of the ploughed plains smoked.

More and more movies have been pressured to allow reporters and TV cameras to come onto the set while you're working, and I find that a real violation

We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.

Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.

I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.

The scars of others should teach us caution.