There's only about 6 inches that turns that halo into a noose..

Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules..

Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt..

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

I was always going to church with my mom, dad and sister. I was literally raised under the godly influence both at home and church. There was no alco….

A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better..

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

As good as we were, we didn’t win a National Championship until 1993, mainly because we kept losing to Miami on missed kicks. I used to get mad becau….

If their IQ's where five points lower they'd be geraniums..

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

After you retire, there's only one big event left....and I ain't ready for that..

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..

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..

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

I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten..

I've always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you're fixing to get drilled than anything I can think of in foot….

People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity….

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

I learned a long time ago that you don't have to go around using bad language and trying to hurt people to show how macho you are. That stuff won't g….

He died right after he retired, and seeing that made me feel more conscious of a man needing a motive to live. If I ever got out of coaching, I would….

The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake..