Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

Courage means being afraid to do something, but still doing it.

If winning isn't everything why bother to keep the score?

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

Leaders are like eagles... they don't flock. You'll find them one at a time.

Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.

On the road we're somebody else's guests - and we play in a way that they're not going to forget we visited them.

Whatever befalls us, we will endure it together. I clutch my longbow and dagger close to my side. My last thoughts linger on my husband and my boy. I will not let harm come to either of them.

Lee leaned closer to her and swore he could smell fear coming off her in waves, the way a shark smells blood in the water

We lose much consolation by the habit of reading His promises for the whole church, instead of taking them directly home to ourselves.

To succeed perseverance yells "pain to gain". If you don't take heed, you'll end up slain!

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good.

A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.

Hollywood is the most superficial thing you could possibly be a part of and if I weren't attractive, I wouldn't be working at all.

Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come?

You need to keep your creative juices flowing and keep [your] character interesting.