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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.