I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.

In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.

We'll take what the other team gives us. We'll scratch where it itches.

Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away.

How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?

The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team.

When it's football season, I'm all football.

You can't control people. You must understand them. You have to know where they're coming from, their beliefs and values, what turns them off, what they're against.

You just witnessed an old-fashioned rump kicking.

We have to be realistic. If we don't win, life will continue.

I'll be here in my home with three big screens. I'll be watching three games at a time, and when they're over, I'll look at three more.

If I had the choice, I would sing only love songs.

All that we can't say is all we need to hear.

Stop praying for salvation when it is clear, You are the saviours that we need around here.

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen.

Happiness comes from you. No one else can make you happy. You make you happy.

Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions

I am not drinking now but I cannot guarantee tomorrow.

The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats.

The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him.

You have good games, you have bad games. You have good years, you have bad years. I have always been kind of philosophical about that.