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

SMU: 'It's unbelievable to think that kind of corruption came right from the top of the power structure. The NCAA did what it had to do' in canceling SMU's 1988 football season.

Today, you've got a decision to make. You're gonna get better or you're gonna get worse, but you're not gonna stay the same. Which will it be?

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

They ask me what I'd like written about me when I'm gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach.

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

You're only as happy as your least happy child.