All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club - the 'hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.'

There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

Some newspapers dispose of their garbage by printing it.

Perhaps the place to start looking for a credibility gap is not in the offices of the Government in Washington but in the studios of the networks in New York!

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Confronted with a choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

It is easier for stars to shine in darkness

In a world filled with flaky people, those that honor commitments and do what they say STAND-OUT. Integrity is currency.

The best acting is instinctive. It's not intellectual, it's not mechanical, it's instinctive.

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.

I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil, even at the cost of life itself.

I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.

It's always nice to get out there and kind of put Boston College on the map, because we're not one of those schools that is seen nationally by everybody.

From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one is entitled to dream, and keep dreaming, of its destination.

A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out in the end it was never bound to be, and you just have to let go.