The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team.

In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.

We'll take what the other team gives us. We'll scratch where it itches.

Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away.

How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?

When it's football season, I'm all football.

You can't control people. You must understand them. You have to know where they're coming from, their beliefs and values, what turns them off, what they're against.

You just witnessed an old-fashioned rump kicking.

We have to be realistic. If we don't win, life will continue.

I'll be here in my home with three big screens. I'll be watching three games at a time, and when they're over, I'll look at three more.

I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.

[Jazz] is a music of freedom and wonder. It's our indigenous art form, and I'm still blessed to travel around the world and people lay out the carpet for us, so it's quite touching.

Ballet is quite unnatural on the joints. My body is just worn. My joints are 10 years older than me.

Even before the kids are born, you've go to make these decisions. If it's a boy, do we get him circumcised? If it's a girl, do we keep her?

I can bear scorpion's stings, tread fields of fire, in frozen gulfs of cold eternal lie, be tossed aloft through tracts of endless void, but cannot live in shame.

The better day, the worse deed.

Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.

A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.

I really, really would like to see religion go away altogether.

One of the things I like most of all is being in my study, in my barn, with absolutely no sound anywhere thinking about something. It's extremely important to me.

Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and gadgets that we have become addicted to.