“I’ve always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you’re fixing to get drilled than anything I can think of in football.”

I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.

After you retire, there’s only one big event left….and I ain’t ready for that.

I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.

I guess I’ll retire someday if I live that long.

If their IQ’s where five points lower they’d be geraniums.

I used to get mad because nobody else would play Miami. Notre Dame would play them, then drop them. Florida dropped them. Penn State dropped them.

The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.

Don’t go to the grave with life unused.

That boy don’t know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don’t know the meaning of a lot of words.

Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.

If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.

There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.

Keeping us safe is really not my job; it’s the black guy’s [Obama’s] job. But I’ll tell you this: If I don’t finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something’s seriously wrong.

The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.

What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that’s my function, but from time to time it’s possible for me actually to help a writer. I read something and something strikes me then, I feel I can talk to that writer about it.

I never think that there’s something I can’t do, whether it’s beating my opponent one on one or practicing another hour because something about my game is just not right.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.

Life doesnt stop because something happens to you.