He who gets the best players usually wins.

If somebody mistreats you, treat 'em good. That kills 'em.

To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.

He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.

A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.

Don't go to the grave with life unused.

He who gets the best players usually wins.

I guess I'll retire someday if I live that long.

A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.

All my life, I've been right next to a football field. I never knew nothing else.

Even though I retired from coaching, I still believe that is my calling.

Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It's the greatest strength I've had. It's helped me get through the hard times. You're not going to win every one of your football games. I've always said I'm not going to make football my god. A lot of coaches put so much into coaching football games that they have nothing left.

Football has always been a big part of my life. Almost from the day I was born, playing and coaching football were all I really ever wanted to do.

I really believe God called on me to coach, and that is the reason I stayed in it for so long.

I was always going to church with my mom, dad and sister. I was literally raised under the godly influence both at home and church. There was no alcohol and no smoking at our house. That was the way a Bowden was supposed to live. My dad always told me to represent the Bowden name in a respectful manner.

I won't miss coaching. What you miss is that camaraderie with those boys and the other coaches. You miss that.

I've never made football my priority. My priorities are my faith and my dependence on God.

People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.

The Bible is big in my teaching. It's a wonder the ACLU didn't get after me pretty good. I really kept thinking they would. I took my boys to church. I took my football team to church. I only did it two times a year. Before I signed a kid, I'd write the parents and I'd tell that parent we were gong to take your son to church twice.

The thing that drives most coaches out of coaching in college is they get tired of the grind of recruiting.

There's a saying in my business that there are two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired and those who haven't been fired yet. That's kind of like prostate cancer. Every man will have it if he lives long enough.

You can live by biblical principles, and you can teach by those principles and still be a winner. So many coaches think you've got to kick your players in the rear end. You've got to cuss them out. You've got to hit them across the head. No. You don't have to do that.

Theres a saying in my business that there are two kinds of coaches those who have been fired and those who havent been fired yet. Thats kind of like prostate cancer. Every man will have it if he lives long enough.

Dont go to the grave with life unused.

They didn't treat him right here. I know if I was him, I wouldn't come back.

I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people.

A lot of America is kind of done. People have been making films about it for 100 years. Everything to me feels used up. But Jo-Burg feels unbelievably inspirational to me.

Anyone who knows me knows I'm a strong advocate for diversity across all dimensions.

I don't want to get home from work and wonder if I could have done better if I didn't go out that night. What you're doing is going to go on the big screen and go down in history.

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality.

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest.

Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.

I love Katy Perry and Lady GaGa. I think GaGa's pushing the envelope every day and I really like that.

I'm pedantic about lip balm. I've been chomping through Lip Smackers since age 11. So the lip balm called Lips! is a personal favourite. I also really love the Properly Clean cleanser. Women are wearing primer, sunscreen and makeup, so a cleanser needs to work hard these days.

We are part of a great whole. All living things are our brothers and sisters.

I live - I live a highly scheduled life. There's absolutely no time wasted. I'm very focused. And I have a great assistant.

Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of a cow in the countryside with dirt everywhere, well, the dresses come back... ready to be put in the garbage.

Once you've been around this business long enough, anything is a possibility. It's a business first and foremost. Guys play it because they love it, but it is a business, and if you don't understand that it's a business, you're lying to yourself.

Well, I'm a consumer as well. I go to the movies with my popcorn and believe everything I see.

In my early work, our molecular views of telomeres were first focused on the DNA.

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.

I know too many musicians that have to tour on the same 10 songs, and they burn out. They get back to their house, and they have no reason to write new music. They are music'd out.

I want to live in a world where people become famous because of their work for peace and justice and care. I want the famous to be inspiring; their lives an example of what every human being has it in them to do act from love!

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

I know L.A. well, but it's a police state.