When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something.

There is no need for me continuing unless I'm able to improve.

If we're a hit, let 'em say anything they want.

Yes, I now that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them.

I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way.

We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose.

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.

Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.

If I flop, let 'em pan me.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something.

It's my show.

One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.

Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.

Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.

Let's win one for the Gipper.

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.

At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrased in front of our friends.

Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.

You know, I've been attending so many banquets that I know what they're going to serve before I get there.

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

On the road we're somebody else's guests - and we play in a way that they're not going to forget we visited them.

A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it.

A coachs greatest asset is his sense of responsibility the reliance placed on him by his players.

Football is a game played with arms legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

The essence of football was blocking tackling and execution based on timing rhythm and deception.

I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective.

Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

If winning isn't everything why bother to keep the score?

Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

There's more than one way to skin a cat

Put your energy into building what is creative valuable and empowering. And you wont have to constantly fight against what is destructive and draining.

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.

I've tried, in 'Bloodmoney,' to tell a story that gets at the crazy relationship between the ISI and the CIA, these absolutely fascinating, often mutually destructive two scorpions in a bottle kind of relationship that they have.

It sounds extraordinary but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.

I pick the wrong kinds of guys, but they're so hot.

I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have another chance if you want it. You know, if we - if this isn't going well, you can't say - well, you could say - let's stop. Let's start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous.