I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.

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.

You can’t be “it” for everyone. In fact, if you try to please everyone, you will please no one, especially yourself.

If we let go of the past, we will never learn from our mistakes.

When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead.

I don't think I have nerves of steel, far from it, but I can certainly stand up to things. I am not afraid to look suffering straight in the eyes.

The No. 1 issue in the Hispanic American community is 'How do I leave my children better off than myself?

If my son or your son handled classified information the way that Hillary Clinton did, they'd be court marshaled.

Don't waste another moment crying over what went wrong! If it wasn't a blessing - it was a lesson.

There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they stand as firmly upon it as any crowned king.

Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active.

Too long, that some may rest, tired millions toil unblest.