Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.

It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load.

Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.

Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit.

Sure, I'd love to beat Notre Dame, don't get me wrong. But nothing matters more than beating that cow college on the other side of the state!

There is a big difference in wanting to and willing to.

Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.

I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.

Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.

The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it.

Thank God for the grace to work.

As you get older you start to see these events and leaders, and movements of the pendulum swinging back.

The general election's taking place today in Iraq, so I guess that means we're one step closer to being there for another 10 years.

It is time to lay to rest the notion that germs jump into people and cause diseases.

A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important as the money, for some people.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.

I don't do alcohol. Or other people's boyfriends. And don't you forget it.

Swells, Marina? we ocean, depths, Marina? we sky!

There is nothing we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, 'When your own heart asks.