“As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.”

Confidence comes from knowing what you’re doing. If you are prepared for something, you usually do it. If not, you usually fall flat on your face.

If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.

I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.

You don’t have to drink or swear or hit people in the face when they’re not looking, but you do have to be tough to win.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?

Achievement builds character.

If you don’t win a Super Bowl, you’re not considered successful in the National Football League. I can remember, when we finally won that first one, feeling so good for the players and fans.

I probably should have gotten out, but I really enjoyed the challenge of bringing a team to that game. In fact, I probably enjoy the challenge of it more than the actual game.

There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.

If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.

I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.

People say you have to know when to retire, which is a dumb thing to say. If you want to go out on top, yeah, it becomes important when you quit. But I wasn’t afraid of that. And I wasn’t worried about getting fired.

People will forget me pretty quick.

The thing about death is it’s so final, isn’t it, really? As far as we know… Nobody has ever come back and told us about it.

Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.

As the thoughts so the mind. If thoughts are good, mind is good. If thoughts are bad, the mind is called bad.

I’m trying as hard as I can to act like I’m 65, but it’s very difficult.

As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.

A book, as it were, closes the book.

Life isn’t a science. We make it up as we go.

I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.