Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win.

They may not love you at the time, but they will later.

Second place is meaningless. You can't always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been - that you were never beaten - that time just ran out on you.

Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.

Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence.