Knowing his coach likes him is more important to a player than anything else.

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

Well, when you're playing good football, it's good football and if you don't have good football, then you're not really playing good football.

You got one guy going boom, one guy going whack, and one guy not getting in the endzone.

Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon.

I would have all my offensive linemen wrestle if I could.

at the end of the game the team with the most points on the board is going to win.

I always used to tell my players that we are here to win! And you know what, Al? When you don't win, you lose.

If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is a talker.

The best way to gain more yards is advance the ball down the field from the line of scrimmage.

Good Enough

Do you trust me?” he said. Olivia met his hard gaze, and a frisson of uncertainty ran down her spine. She did trust him. Completely. But did he trust her? And why did that matter so much?

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

Every cat knows how to keep his owner feeding them: You may scratch and bite ninety-nine times, but the hundredth time, you must leap into a lap and press your nose to their nose. Rules are for dogs.

Dude, I didn't say Jude Law can't act. I didn't say Jude Law was in bad movies. I just said he's in every movie.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.

It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after.

I'm always very conscious because I like to give time between records, even though I feel like I write music that will last it's time, whatever time that is.