I ain't never been nothin but a winner.

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.

It's easy to just give everything up, but it takes a lot of strength and a lot of willpower to just make yourself stay on it and get up and do something different. And I had to do that.

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.

Pain is beyond reason, an obliterating giant stupidity to which all your history of jokes and nuance and ideas and caresses is nothing, simply nothing.

The laws of God work in the same way as the laws of Science. You cannot break them - you can only break yourself against them.

Quit hanging on to the handrails . . . Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day.

There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.

We looked into each other's eyes. I saw myself, she saw herself.

Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.

My work has always been the product of my time.