“In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate.”

Football coaches don’t have real problems.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

I give opinions, not advice.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

I’m so old, I don’t buy green bananas any more.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

God looks after children, animals and idiots.

If he’s got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don’t hire him.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I’m talking about just for the league itself.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely.

Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely.

The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.

We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren’t there.

Greece isn’t a democracy now it’s run through a troika – three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can’t do.

Invaluable….the best one-stop source I’ve seen for what various officials actually said at various times, suffused with intelligent analysis.

Here’s Brian Flynn. His official height is five feet five and he doesn’t look much taller than that