Joe Paterno

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. Thats the mark of a true professional.

You must relate athletic experiences to life.

I've had a wonderful experience here at Penn State.

The name on the front of the jersey is what really matters, not the name on the back.

I'm not as concerned about me. What's happened to me has been great. I got five great kids. Seventeen grandchildren.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

In every life, there have to be some shadows. Look at me. My life has been filled with sunshine. A beautiful and caring wife. Five healthy children. I got to do what I loved. How many people are that lucky?

I don't think I deviated from what I'm all about and what I thought was important. Whether you want to call that a legacy, or whatever you want to call it.

My thing was play as hard as you can, don't be stupid, pay attention to details, and have enough guts in the clutch that you're not afraid to make a play. Some things I thought were important for a young man to know.

I really enjoyed coaching.

Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

Believe deep down in your heart that youre destined to do great things.

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.

To teach an academic subject is certainly not easy, but compared to coaching, it is. We can say 'two plus two is four' to every kid and be sure that we are right. But in coaching, we have to literally get to the soul of the people we are dealing with.

The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

It doesn't matter what people think of me. I've lived my life.

Coaches have got to be given rank within the university so that you can't fire a coach unless you go through an academic committee, just as you would with a professor. If coaches are to have any stability and security, they need to be treated like an English professor.

Mostly I want to talk positive; I wanna talk about a bunch of great kids that I coached and made me look good and the university that I've seen grow from a cow college, which it was, only 12,000 people, and when I came here, we weren't at Pennsylvania State University, we were at Penn State College.

The minute you think youve got it made disaster is just around the corner.

We shall act with good intentions, but at times we will be wrong. When we are, let us admit it and try to right the situation.

Coaches have got to be given rank within the university so that you cant fire a coach unless you go through an academic committee just as you would with a professor. If coaches are to have any stability and security they need to be treated like an English professor.

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

We have to realize a kid will love us one day and hate us the next. That cannot change who we are and what we are about.

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.

What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence over young people than anybody but their families. And, in a lot of cases, more than their families.

Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things.

SUCCESS WITHOUT HONOR IS AN UNSEASONED DISH IT WILL SATISFY YOUR HUNGER BUT IT WONT TASTE GOOD.

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.