“Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.”

I don’t think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.

You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.

If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.

The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.

Don’t be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.

Make your life exciting.

I don’t believe in looking past anybody – I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.

I don’t believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people.

When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.

That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.

Live in the moment that you are in.

If you’re straight with your players, they’ll be straight with you.

Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, “Hey, I made a mistake.

All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.

My dean gave me permission to model during my work semester, even though I was in the Criminal Justice Department. I don’t know whether I’d ever have become a model if he hadn’t let me do that.

John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.