“I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.”

I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely.

Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.

This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate.

We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age.

I find it quite easy to play chords, and, you know, that was all I ever did. I never wanted to be a lead guitarist.

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can.

I know who I am. I don’t have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did.

My mom sold real estate and did it part time.

But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.

If you decide you want to change your life around, it doesn’t matter where you came from, what you did.

100 percent, my whole life. I went to school, I did music theory,