Players have responsibility, and if they don't do their job, certain things happen. Coaches have responsibility. If they don't do their job, things happen.

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.

Before we can talk about a championship, we have to practice like a championship team.

I am sure there is a right way and a wrong way and in today's life, there are many different rules of being politically correct.

You never really know about a quarterback until he plays in a real game.

If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.

Every day I've got to get up and make a decision. I have an opportunity every day to affect young men and the coaches that are around me, the entire organization and the entire community.

You want to learn everything that you possibly can, chew it, digest it, and take it for what it is, and then move on.

I want winners. I want people that want to win.

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.

I don’t want to go to heaven. I want to transform the earth to be heaven.

I looked back at some high school journals and discovered that I definitely wanted to be a writer, but not necessarily comedy.

Kissing tends to bring on woolgathering, even amnesia.

The fools that came in here brought their beach gear to a cave...go figure.

An addiction is anything we do to avoid hearing the messages that body and soul are trying to send us.

All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.

The shimmering night does not stay for mortals, not misfortunes, nor wealth, but in a moment it is gone, and to the turn of another comes joy and loss.

If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another.

More than anything I want to be fit so I don't get out of breath when I play football with the kids.

If you put your conditioned intellect to rest for a long time, suddenly it will be like the bottom falling out of a bucket - then you will naturally be happy and at peace.