You don't have to flaunt your success, but you don't have to apologize for it, either

The expectation level is high at the University of Alabama and it should be. What's wrong with people expecting excellence?

If it seems like you can see farther than most people, it is because you're standing on shoulders of giants.

If you think there is such a thing as an unimportant game, just try losing one.

I'm seldom right, but I'm never in doubt.

I guess that makes our biggest weakness lack of strength.

Coach (Bear) Bryant wanted to see who was tough in the spring, who he could count on in the fall.

Valentine reminds us that to be fully human is to be both a story teller and a story dweller."--- Christina Meldrum, author of Madapple and Amaryllis in Blueberry

The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.

It is not enough to recognize what is right and true. One must control the impulse to do what is wrong and easy.

When Clemson players rub that rock and run down the hill, it's the most exciting 25 seconds in college football.

You don't have to shout from the mountaintops. Sometimes power comes in a soft, calm, compassionate way, like a quiet warrior.

When your Japanese lifetime is coming out, drink all the sake you want. Have a little bash.

I'm Puerto Rican! You can never take my rice, pork, and beans away. Plus, I love to cook. I'm one of those people who stay in the kitchen standing while everything is cooking, checking on everything.

Humans are stupid. I'm ashamed to be human.

There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

My dad died, and my grandfather died, and my great-grandfather died. And the guy before him, I don't know. Probably died.