I've always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you're fixing to get drilled than anything I can think of in football.

To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.

If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.

I'm not too proud to change. I like to win too much.

A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.

He died right after he retired, and seeing that made me feel more conscious of a man needing a motive to live. If I ever got out of coaching, I would have to get a job somewhere, or I'm afraid I'd wilt on the vine, too.

That boy don't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don't know the meaning of a lot of words.