“Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.”

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

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.

Nine times out of ten, I’m trying to meet someone else’s expectations, whether it’s the director or the writer or the animator

I feel like pain is the quickest way to relate to someone because everybody has been through that and everybody has had a heartbreak.

The thing is, when you put a button in someone’s hand and give them the power of yes or no is a shorter word. People just say no.

I need someone to eat breakfast with and watch Adventure Time with!

It’s honest. I can’t portray to you something that I’ve never been through or something I didn’t watch someone close to me go through.

Someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others.

If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you.

If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.