"The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it."
"A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall."
“Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love.”
“There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. I do, and I demand that my players do.”
“Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.”
“Winning is not a sometime thing, it is an all the time thing. You don’t do things right once in a while…you do them right all the time.”
“People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.”
I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.
Taste cannot be controlled by law.
The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
One man with courage is a majority.
Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
There is no There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
There ain't no rules around here, we're trying to accomplish something.
If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.