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

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!

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.

If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, "Roll, Tide, Roll!"

Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold.

No! I need to go home, " I say, but then the realization comes: My mother was my home. My mother is dead.

You'll find people where their conditions aren't changing in any way, its rather rare for them to be happy.

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you — the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends.

I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make a conscious choice to erase God's thumbprint from their souls.

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.

I'm not really listed anywhere; I don't know how people find me!