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

Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.

This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

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

We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

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.

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.

Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.

But, hey I did everything the right way and earned my spot in this game, nothing was given to me.

Kobe always tried to be a hero. But you know, as the saying goes, a hero ain’t nothing but a sandwich.

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.