We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

Courage means being afraid to do something, but still doing it.

If winning isn't everything why bother to keep the score?

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

Leaders are like eagles... they don't flock. You'll find them one at a time.

Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.

On the road we're somebody else's guests - and we play in a way that they're not going to forget we visited them.

Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset?

Are guilt and regret not messages from inside of us, letting us know that our moral compasses have been recalibrated and are pointing in the right direction?

For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found my customer, my silhouette, my cut.

If you didn’t take the picture, you weren’t there.

Writers are notorious for using any reason to keep from working: over-researching, retyping, going to meetings, waxing the floors - anything.

Mastery is the rudder, Mystery is the sail and Magic the wind to move you in your chosen direction.

Philly is a state of mind I’m always in. The city is truly a character in its own right, and it’s served me well because the people I was exposed to gave me that cultural rootedness.

I didn't like the way the game was being played.

People can put you down, and they will but Allah will never abandon you, so long as you don’t.

But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!