“It doesn’t seem that long ago to me that the word ‘irreverent’ seemed affixed to my name. ‘Irreverent newcomer.’ I went from irreverent to venerable in what seems to me like the blink of an eye.”

All that’s missing for Utah is a blindfold and a cigarette.

We’re still buzzin’ about Bruce Springsteen at halftime, but I’ll tell you if there was one guy we weren’t thinking was ‘Born To Run’ it was James Harrison.

You have to be simultaneously well-prepared and spontaneous. You don’t really know for sure what percentage of the preparation you are going to use, and you don’t know exactly where it will apply. So you have to be prepared, but not locked into that preparation.

commenting on baseball players who test positive for steroids: It?s an announced test, so you not only failed the steroid test, you failed the IQ test.

For years the league has thought I’ve been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.

In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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

Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.