The five big mistakes in football are the fumble, the interception, the penalty, the badly called play, the blocked punt—and most of these originate with the quarterback. Find a mistake-proof quarterback and you have this game won.

I don't apologize for anything. When I make a mistake, I take the blame and go on from there. I just despise to lose, and that has taken a man of mediocre ability and made a pretty good coach out of him.

Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect.

Football represents and embodies everything that's great about this country, because the United States of America is built on winners, not losers or people who didn't bother to play.

The minute I think I'm getting mellow, I'm retiring. Who ever heard of a mellow winner?

Nobody despises to lose more than I do. That's got me into trouble over the years, but it also made a man of mediocre ability into a pretty good coach.

The only thing even in this world is the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours.