There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

The person who properly disciplines himself to do those things that he does not especially care to do, becomes successful.

Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died.

The first and foremost requisite of a good football player is that he must have a burning desire to play the game. There is absolutely no substitute for this.

You have to pay the price - but if you do you can only win.

A spoonful of humor makes the message go down easier.

You've got to be tough to win.

Give me a lead of 14-0 at halftime and I will dictate the final score.

When the going gets tough the tough get going.

Wit is well-bred insolence.

I thought I made a little movie. All the mail that I get is about how it changed lives and that’s wonderful.

There are moments when rather than reforming the human race I'd like to abandon it altogether and go become, say, one of Dr. O'Reilly's macaques, which have to have more sense.

It doesn't pay to be good at something unless you are the absolute best at it.

Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition.

I live like a man who's dead already! I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything

Swimming always cleans your soul

This is God's way, the way of humility. It is the way of Jesus; there is no other. And there can be no humility without humiliation.

If you raise your gaze, you don't see the boundaries anymore.

You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.