It was an incredible effort by the Irish down in Tallahassee. Jameis Winston was too tough in the second half; congrats to the Seminoles.

The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent.

A winner is someone who can look in the mirror at the end of the day and say in pursuit of my goal and dreams I gave my best.

Life is simple. Make good decisions and good things happen. Make bad decisions and bad things happen.

A loser is someone who makes excuses and alibis and blames everyone else for their losses and failures.

People that don't know me think that basketball is my life 24/7. Trust me, there is much more to my life. My number one priority in my life is my family.

Twelve for 23... It doesn't take a genius to see that's under 50 percent.

One day to see that headline, not that someone won a basketball championship, but to see that a cure for cancer has been found, will be a great day for mankind.

Looking back, I remember telling my daughters that we didn't have money, pizzazz and a lot of the things we have today, but we had so much love and we lived like millionaires.

It is time for everyone to sit down -the NCAA, the NBA, the players union and the coaching fraternity-and come up with suitable solutions to these problems.

You'd have to live in a cave not to know about the Carrier Dome. It put Syracuse on the map.

The Gates of Heaven and the Gates of Hell are the same gates. It just depends which side you're standing on when you walk through.

There is no feature as attractive as a well exercised intellect.

My dad was a great dad.

The woman is the reflection of her man

There have been a lot of changes [in the fashion industry], of course. You just have to accept it and be strong.

What we've done, it seems to me, is allow women to get older, but not to age.

...you canʹt always choose how you love a person. Love isnʹt logical or fair. It just happens.

I have a lot of African-American friends.

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.