Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

The kids that were the victims ... I think we all ought to say a prayer for them.

My name, I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone.

Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.

A hard-fought, well-fought, hairline-close game is as classical in sports as tragedy is in the theater. Victory is contained within defeat, and defeat is contained within victory. That's the way it is in the best of games. What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle.

What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle.

What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence than anybody but their families. And, in a lot of cases, more than their families.