“Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.”

If you get into the endzone, act as if you’ve been there before.

We don’t pray to win. We pray to play the best we can, and to keep us free from injury. And the prayer we say after the game is one of thanksgiving.

Success demands singleness of purpose.

Live as if you were living already for the second time.

The darkest moments of our lives are not to be buried and forgotten, rather they are a memory to be called upon for inspiration to remind us of the unrelenting human spirit and our capacity to overcome the intolerable.

If you can accept losing, you can’t win.

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.

Everyone has a will to win but very few have the will to prepare to win.

Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

There is no substitute for work.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.

In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.

What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.

God loves you, and this is something on which all our religious traditions are agreed.

They sayin I’m back, I agree with that.

Your very silence shows you agree.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.