Our dad made everything competitive for me and brother. It always was a world championship, a national championship, Big 10 championship. It was always at stake in everything we did.

Ability is God-given, prowess is earned.

Discipline is not a light switch. Discipline is a way of life.

A man can be destroyed, but he can't be defeated.

The main thing is winning. Stats aren't that important, but I think in the end things will work themselves out.

The thing about special teams - and I think football in general - is sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you.

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

God has great riches for you. If thy will seek Him.

I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

Gossip is more popular than literature.

I’m sort of known in the comedy community as “Smooth Sailing,” just ’cause everything always goes great. I’ve always had success at every turn.

The kingdom of heaven was never intended to indulge the ease of triflers, but to the rest of them that labor.

Both teachers and students must move ahead together for the nation to progress.

my childhood grew thin and flat, paperlike. It was tired and threadbare, and in low moments it didn't look like it would last until I was grown up.

When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it's about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome.