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.'

Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back.

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

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.

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.

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.

Failure is not getting beat. Failure is when you don't do a good job preparing.