You've got to be in a position for luck to happen. Luck doesn't go around looking for a stumblebum.

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.

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.

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.

I prefer my justice to be blind.

The unsaid rules every conversation.

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

A runner is real when she takes the first step.

My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing.

Be purposeful. Be patient, and be active!

There is a very easy and very peaceful way to get rid of a dictator: Get out of the system!

You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg.

It's as if Thomas Kinkade and Dante were at a party, and one turned to the other sometime after midnight and uttered that classic line "You know, we really should work together sometime.

We were built to fall apart and fall back together.