Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Success - it's what you do with what you've got.

Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.

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

A man is always better than he thinks.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

A good general always makes you search for his weaknesses.

As the youngest, I don't think there was any doubt I was spoiled.

Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.

I am not very smart, but I recognize that I am not very smart.

I don't apologize for anything. When I make a mistake, I take the blame and go on from there.

I don't like nice people. I like tough, honest people.

I may not be able to outsmart too many people, but I can outwork 'em.

I speak at a lot of banquets in small towns, because small towns have so many great people.

I'm not trying to win a popularity poll. I'm trying to win football games.

My brother and I were still in high school playing football, and we were both middleweight, and we couldn't find anyone else to fight in our weight class, so we'd fight each other. I was a stand-up fighter, and Ike was a weaving type of fighter, and we fought that way out there at Cy Young's farm, and we put on quite a show.

No back in the history of football was ever worth two fumbles a game.

Nobody despises to lose more than I do. That's got me into trouble over the years, but it also made a man of mediocre ability into a pretty good coach.

Nothing that comes easy is worth a dime.

On our first date, all Anne wanted to talk about was Bob Feller, the new pitcher for the Cleveland Indians.

Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.

The bowl games are only supposed to be a fun reward.

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.

The game of football is one of strategy and tactics.

The most deceptive course in football is straight at the goalposts.

The players fire the coach, and as long as I'm on the same wavelength with them, I can coach as long as I want to.

When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

What staggers me is not the persistence of illusion, but the persistence of the world in the face of illusion.

As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.

Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty.

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.