To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.

Don't go to the grave with life unused.

That boy don't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don't know the meaning of a lot of words.

Discipline to me is sacrifice; it's willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.

The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.

Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.

If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.

When I go after something, I go after it hard. It has always been that way. I don't know. It's in my blood.

Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel.

I'm not too proud to change. I like to win too much.

If somebody mistreats you, treat’em good. That kills’em.

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.

Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.

A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

She dries her eyes and bakes her pies and leaves 'em on the window sill

Anything or anyone that asks you to be other than yourself is not holy, but is trying only to fill its own need.

I assume then, that you have no real faith in the fondness any of the rest of us may feel for you?''None,' said Mrs. Halloran.

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well.

Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.

The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.