There's no substitute for guts.

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.

Roger, he has a chain saw, " I hissed. "I am not going to die in Kentucky!

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

Perhaps by now I'd come far enough that I had the guts to be afraid.

You are my only friend in the world, and I want to talk to you. Or, perhaps, be silent with you.

Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.

God is not against us for our sins. God is for us against our sins.

Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.

Most people don't bother about their friends in the vegetable kingdom.

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.

I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial.