“You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.”

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.

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.

There won’t be any hearsay. There won’t be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal.

I played so long ago, I don’t think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don’t think they knew anything about it.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

If you weren’t on Chris Economaki’s radar screen, you probably weren’t on anybody’s.

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

I don’t try to sensationalize anybody. I’m not trying to entertain. I’m trying to give information and give access to me and tell about our program.

Anybody who can drive and doesn’t come out of it a rich man is a fool.

We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.