Top to bottom Michigan is about excellence, greatness. You have my pledge I will carry forward the excellence of Michigan football.

Attack each day with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind.

Realistic expectations for life are that we are going to be better today than we were yesterday, be better tomorrow than we were today. That's a plan for success. So [the key is] simple: just work.

I don't take vacations. I don't get sick. I don't observe major holidays. I'm a jack hammer.

I love being part of something that is working toward a greater goal, and there's no more satisfaction in life than achieving those goals as a team and being a part of that team.

I have always believed that you win as part of a team effort. I've learned that if everybody does a little bit, it adds up to a lot.

It's more than personal. I can't screw it up. I have to do.

Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success.

There are no turnarounds at Michigan. This is greatness. Long tradition of it.

I was and still am happier than a pig in slop.

I am now in control of all things.

Changes ain't totally pleasant but they're excellent things... Two years is about long enough for things to stay exactly the same. If they stayed put any longer they might grow mossy.

Without an abundance of hope and happiness, it will be difficult to accumulate an abundance of wealth.

The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen....

It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.

Your only purpose is to be yourself, otherwise you deprive the universe of who you came here to be.

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.

It's just really exciting to have the ball in my hands. Not just on defense but to make plays on special teams also.

If you're making a film, the one thing I've learned is you have to pick somebody really well-known to make it relevant.

It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.

The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.