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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I really enjoyed coaching.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You must relate athletic experiences to life.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

It is my sincere hope that hospitals across Indiana, and America, continue to strive for excellence when it comes to providing medical care. This proposed rule will be harmful to communities who wish to upgrade their medical facilities.

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.

What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.