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

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.

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.

You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.

Priceless diamonds often shape in worthless dirt.

Truth is merely common sense, say the naive realist. Really? Then where, precisely, is the location of--a rainbow? In the air? In the eye? In between? Or somewhere else?

I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling - that was my real love.

We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.

Sweeney: I can just see all you tough young soldiers cuddling together. Richard: Not cuddling, huddling. There's a difference.

If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell shouldn't schedule a meeting with me before 10am.

I love people who are complicated, and I love playing people who are complicated.

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

It's only ... when we're stripped of purpose that we know who we are.

I would not let myself be intimidated by Yahya Khan, his methods had led us to disaster.