Well, when you're playing good football, it's good football and if you don't have good football, then you're not really playing good football.

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

You got one guy going boom, one guy going whack, and one guy not getting in the endzone.

Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon.

I would have all my offensive linemen wrestle if I could.

at the end of the game the team with the most points on the board is going to win.

I always used to tell my players that we are here to win! And you know what, Al? When you don't win, you lose.

If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is a talker.

The best way to gain more yards is advance the ball down the field from the line of scrimmage.

In Oakland, Al Davis was a genius. We had Ron Wolff there, too, and he was a genius. There was no room for me to be a genius.

Rejection is a challenge.

Cultivate the art of maximizing serendipitous opportunities.

To accumulate wealth, power or land beyond one's needs in a limited world is to be truly immoral, be it as an individual, an institution, or a nation-state.

If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.

I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope.

Presidents have to learn how to adapt. Every president comes into the job, it's different than they expect, they must adapt.

If you plant yourself in one place and let your roots grow deep, there is no limit to what God can do.

None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.

Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.