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.

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

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

There is not economy in getting cheap service or equipment. Buy the best and cry only once.

Never tell 'em how many lettermen you've got coming back. Tell 'em how many you lost.

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.

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