“I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.”

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.

Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.

Confidence comes from knowing what you’re doing. If you are prepared for something, you usually do it. If not, you usually fall flat on your face.

If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.

I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.

You don’t have to drink or swear or hit people in the face when they’re not looking, but you do have to be tough to win.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?

Achievement builds character.

If you don’t win a Super Bowl, you’re not considered successful in the National Football League. I can remember, when we finally won that first one, feeling so good for the players and fans.

I probably should have gotten out, but I really enjoyed the challenge of bringing a team to that game. In fact, I probably enjoy the challenge of it more than the actual game.

There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.

If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.

I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

If anyone asks me whether I like being a popular writer, I ask them whether they think I’d rather be an unpopular writer.

You make me happy, even when you’re awful. I would rather be with you – even the you that you seem to think is diminished – than with anyone else in the world.

Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk. She said, pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed. She taught us to trust in thing we could see, not that we heard.

It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.

If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him ‘pop.’

If anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single spiritual person who has been able to show either empirically or logicall.

Like anyone else, a lot of what I do and how I think has been shaped by my family and my overall life experience. Many who know me say I am also defined by my curiosity and thirst for learning. I buy more books than I can finish.

A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.