“If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.”

I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

My wife looked at me and said: ‘Boy, you are skinny, aren’t you?’ I said: ‘Honey, I’d like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.’

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on.

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day.

God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.

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.

What was up with class today? It was watered-down porn. He practically had you and patch on top of your lab table, horizontal, minus your clothes, doing the big deed.

I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.

Read! When your baby is finally down for the night, pick up a juicy book like Eat, Pray, Love or Pride and Prejudice or my personal favorite,Understanding Sleep Disorders: Narcolepsy and Apnea.

Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere.

Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha…. Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.

Chase him down and stall for time. I need two more minutes. Chase him down? How? The neon has a flat. With your own two feet! You mean exercise?

I’m definitely a hair down girl. I’m a fan of the natural, earthy look.