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.

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

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

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

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.

Reach for the heaven

Leaders say "no" to corruption. Anyone playing a role in governance, and is not ready to do this is not a leader.

On one side of accountability is courage, on the other is freedom.

Your dreams will take you where you belong.

Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

The only healing I’ve ever known is getting back in that race car — for all us racers.

The world we experience with our unaided senses is fluid and animate, shifting and transforming in response to our own shifts of position and of mood.

We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.

It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.

I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.