“Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.”

Expect the unexpected.

Losing doesn’t make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight that much harder.

If you are going to be a successful duck hunter, you must go where the ducks are.

A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.

I didn’t have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn’t want to. But I didn’t think they’d pick one I didn’t like.

Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.

Recruiting is the one thing I hate. I won’t do it unless my coaches tell me I’ve just got to. The whole process is kind of undignified for me and the young man.

I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.

Don’t give up. Reach down inside of you and you’ll find something left.

I ain’t never been nothin but a winner.

I know what it takes to win. If I can sell them on what it takes to win, then we are not going to lose too many football games.

When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover – you can’t do both.

Set goals – high goals for you and your organization. When your organization has a goal to shoot for, you create teamwork, people working for a common good.

Don’t worry about making friends; don’t worry about making enemies. Worry about winning, because if you win, your enemies can’t hurt you, and if you lose, your friends can’t stand you.

You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns.

Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.

Riches don’t respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

You don’t get things that you desire but you receive things that you deserve.

Your soul is a magnet that attracts what you desire.

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

You have the strength to become what you desire.

Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.