I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it.

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.

I'm thinking about the cat dying, Dulcie and her knife against my throat, Mrs Irvin and her St Thomas bone... But never my sister. A brother rarely thinks about his sister.

I was brought up, ' Freddy informed him, 'not to suffer anxiety about decisive initiative of all types.

It seems now that the place where you see the most obvious censorship is on college campuses -- the precise place where you would expect to see the least.

Root out all the "to be" verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No "It was" or "they are" or "I am." Don't let it be, make it happen.

Lately it has become more and more difficult to attend dinner parties without the evening ending in gunfire or tapioca.

A proud monk needs no demon. He has turned into one, an enemy to himself.

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Go the extra mile. It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker.

I started to try to be a colorist, although secretly thinking of myself as somewhat of a black and whiteist.

Don’t say ‘I can’t,’ say ‘I presently struggle with.’