When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

Work hard, stay focused and surround yourself with good people.

My hardest job is to convince the people of Nebraska that 10-1 is not a losing season.

I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. By the time I get to the locker room, I'm done.

Know how to win and how to lose and be able to handle adversity.

Have a spiritual basis which guides you in life. Have a philosophy of life to live by.

As a college coach, I felt you could make a difference in a player's life. There was an educational aspect I thought was important.

Everybody's got to do what they've got to do.

Our people were not happy. I knew at some point we were going to win. It's a little unfair, but that's the reality. To some degree, it became a one-game season for some folks.

It is important that voters be as informed as possible when they enter the polls May 9 to determine who has the experience, integrity and vision to lead Nebraska to excellence.

I was really good at sitting around and debating things in my head.

Where is your water? Know your garden.

Roy Dale suspected that Mississippi was beautiful. He wasn't sure. He didn't have anything to compare it to. He hadn't even ever been out of the Delta.

I try really hard to separate myself from other celebrity brands.

The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body. [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]

You can eat an elephant one bit at a time.

Women are the twin halves of men.

I do think that it's always okay to show too little. People will still be interested. So why show too much?

We women, when we're searching for a meaning to our lives or for the path of knowledge, always identify with one of four classic archetypes.

Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.