“As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions.”

God will never violate His Word, but He doesn’t seem to mind violating our understanding of His Word.

I like being feminine. I think it’s good to be feminine. We don’t need to look like men or dress like men or talk like men to be powerful. We can be powerful in our own way, our own feminine way.

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.

One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.

I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.

The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.

It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things.

If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.

More men fail though lack of purpose than lack of talent.

I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.

I am and always will be a sinner. But that’s the beautiful thing about Jesus. I’ll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I’m not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I’m holier than thou, ’cause I’m not!

The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

I’ve always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I’m an actor, but felt sorry for me because they’d never seen anything I’ve done.

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

People don’t realize that I’m mobile, athletic and strong-armed.

You have to transfer your success on the track to your education, because you don’t want to waste what you did athletically once your athletic career is over.

I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.

I never saw an athletic girl that thought she was strong enough to do indoor work.

There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair.

I’m an athletic actor. I’m known for my action; I’m a guy who does my own stunts on screen.

In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’