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.

Don't just stand back and play the way you're coached. A great player must rise to the occasion and turn the game around on his own.

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

When a kid plays football before he attends a class, something is wrong.

There's never been a greater game than football.

All coaches are thinking men, or else they wouldn't survive.

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