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

All the world loves a winner and has no time for a loser.

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something.

Courage means being afraid to do something, but still doing it.

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.

If winning isn't everything why bother to keep the score?