The Texas-OU game is a big revenue bear. And because it's played at a neutral site, you don't have as many student body going as you would if it was home-and-home. These are full-price tickets.

When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out - and it's been sold out ever since.

The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

There is no such thing as defeat except when it comes from within. As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated, he is not defeated-he's just a little behind and isn't through fighting.

The real make of a man is how he treats people who can do nothing for him.

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish

Dance with the one who brung ya.

The coach is the team, and the team is the coach. You reflect each other.

Potential just means you ain't done it yet.

Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.

A life without goals is like flotsam that is governed by the tides and winds of fate.

I've never tried to be famous or become a bestseller, just rich and remembered. The rest is a bonus.

My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.

I don't think anybody deals well with tragedy or grief, but maybe my characters are particularly bad at it. Which is why I love them.

I would like to have three or four kids.

Be happy. Talk happiness.

Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia.

Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This is the way engineers get high. They go to the moon!

It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords

I wanted to be a film and television writer and producer.