“How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?”

I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

I don’t drink water, haven’t drank water in 40 years.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn’t much, so to get $300 more per year.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

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

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.

Continents of memory had been lost.

If you can achieve that, that then it has been a pretty good game.

You will follow every mountain, sea and shore, You will see from far and near a world you’ve never seen before.

And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.

You never know what class you belong to unless you’re one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.

f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!

Villains are a ball. People have been laughing at me for 50 years, so I love to sit in the back of the theater and listen to them hate me.

I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country… people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.