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

To teach an academic subject is certainly not easy, but compared to coaching, it is. We can say two plus two is four to every kid and be sure that we are right. But in coaching, we have to literally get to the soul of the people we are dealing with.

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

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 father said about money: 'You have to have some. But you don't have to have all of it. Just be honest with yourself.'

We need people who influence their peers and who cannot be detoured from their convictions by peers who do not have the courage to have any convictions.

In hindsight, I wish I had done more.