“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.”

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.

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.

If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.

When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.

If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.

Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?

The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.

If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.

You say that you are just a body, but inside of you is something greater than the Universe.

If I’m going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don’t do it at all.