After you retire, there's only one big event left....and I ain't ready for that.

Don't go to the grave with life unused.

That boy don't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don't know the meaning of a lot of words.

Discipline to me is sacrifice; it's willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.

The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.

Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.

If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.

When I go after something, I go after it hard. It has always been that way. I don't know. It's in my blood.

To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.

Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel.

I'm not too proud to change. I like to win too much.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces sleep.

The more I keep myself occupied and jump from thing to thing, the more I think it enriches both.

It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients - or their lack - and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws.

You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell?

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.

It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.

Nature is what you don't have to trouble about. It looks after itself.

No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice of discriminating against one half of humanity represented by women.

We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite protests to win the battle.

No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth.