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

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

The second Saturday in September, we’re going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team.

I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it’s not always in the way you expect.

I believe – we all pay taxes. I’m happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That’s going to bother you.

We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.

I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching.

Our cellar home had a kitchen and a combination bedroom and half bath, which meant we had a sink next to the bed.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends.

I don’t exercise.

As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that’s all you would read about in the papers all over the country.

I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

Patch’s eyes were slate black, darker than a million secrets stacked on top of each other. He dropped his gaze to the ring in his hand, turning it over slowly. “swear you’ll never stop loving me,” i whispered. Ever so slightly, he nodded.

Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.

In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.

Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.

What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?

When I was 14, I wanted to smoke because my mother smoked like mad. I wanted to smoke to look grown-up. But my mother said: ‘You shouldn’t smoke. Your hands are not that beautiful and that shows when you smoke.

First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.

I can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.