Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes..

Let's win one for the Gipper..

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception..

I have to get the most energy out of a man and have discovered that it cannot be done if he hates another man. Hate blocks his energy and he isn't up….

There is no need for me continuing unless I'm able to improve..

If winning isn't everything why bother to keep the score?.

The morning we left South Bend, every student and professor was out of bed long before breakfast and marched downtown accompanying the team to the ra….

Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third..

It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it..

Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself..

One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach..

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains..

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it..

If I flop, let 'em pan me..

The best thing I ever learned in life was that things have to be worked for. A lot of people seem to think there is some sort of magic in making a wi….

Never tell 'em how many lettermen you've got coming back. Tell 'em how many you lost..

A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players..

Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now..

An automobile goes nowhere efficiently unless it has a quick, hot spark to ignite things, to set the cogs of the machine in motion. So I try to make ….

Leaders are like eagles... they don't flock. You'll find them one at a time..

The secret of winning is working more as a team, less as individuals..