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.

A man is always better than he thinks.

There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.

Statistics always remind me of fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet.

The only way we'd get beaten was if we got a little fat-headed, if we didn't train right, if we had dissension on the squad.

Without winners, there would be no civilization.

We control by attitudes-positive mental attitudes-not by rules.