“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.

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.

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.

I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.

Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.

What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?

I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself… something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.

I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.