An automobile goes nowhere efficiently unless it has a quick, hot spark to ignite things, to set the cogs of the machine in motion. So I try to make every player on my team feel he's the spark keeping our machine in motion.

Yes, I know that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks, too. But we're gonna fool them.

At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrassed in front of our friends.

Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

If the coach insists upon hard play, but clean play, the team will do likewise.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.