The secret of winning is working more as a team, less as individuals.

I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.

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.

I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective.

Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.

The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.

I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, "Oh, well, there's another Saturday." The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.