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The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
I really enjoyed coaching.
There has to be some self-denial.
In hindsight, I wish I had done more.
Success is best measured by the achiever.
Keep hustling, something good will happen.
Connfidence, excellence becomes a reality.
You must relate athletic experiences to life.
You're only as happy as your least happy child.
There's never been a greater game than football.
I've had a wonderful experience here at Penn State.
You can't have a great university without a great library.
All coaches are thinking men, or else they wouldn't survive.
Some things I thought were important for a young man to know.
Everybody likes to win. It sure beats the devil out of losing.
Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.
If I had to do it over again, I'd probably play the game the same way.
When a kid plays football before he attends a class, something is wrong.
Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.
The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.
When a kid plays football games before he attends a class, something is wrong.
Failure is not getting beat. Failure is when you don't do a good job preparing.
What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle.
The kids that were the victims ... I think we all ought to say a prayer for them.
Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back.
The name on the front of the jersey is what really matters, not the name on the back.
Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
My name, I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone.
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.
I'm not as concerned about me. What's happened to me has been great. I got five great kids. Seventeen grandchildren.
My father said about money: 'You have to have some. But you don't have to have all of it. Just be honest with yourself.'
I still haven't gotten that little something out of my system that I'm still not a kid going to a football game. I'm excited.
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.
Don't just stand back and play the way you're coached. A great player must rise to the occasion and turn the game around on his own.
Today, you've got a decision to make. You're gonna get better or you're gonna get worse, but you're not gonna stay the same. Which will it be?
We play with enthusiasm and recklessness. We aren't afraid to lose. If we win, great; but win or lose, it is the competition that gives us pleasure.
They ask me what I'd like written about me when I'm gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach.
We need people who influence their peers and who cannot be detoured from their convictions by peers who do not have the courage to have any convictions.
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.
Right now I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do, 'cause I don't want to sit around on my backside all day. If I'm gonna do that I'll be a newspaper reporter.
SMU: 'It's unbelievable to think that kind of corruption came right from the top of the power structure. The NCAA did what it had to do' in canceling SMU's 1988 football season.
Here, I have an opportunity to affect the lives of a lot of young people - and not just on my football team. I'm not kidding myself that that would be true at the professional level.
I stayed on the track I wanted to stay on. 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 had a great bunch of kids. They all hung with us. The coaching staff hung with us. And we played tough every game. If you've got kids that want to play and react to you, it's fun. I'm having a good time.
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 it's fair to 12-, 13- and 14-year-olds to say 'Show us you're a winner right now!' Winning isn't everything. I'll never buy that thing that if a boy loses a football game, he's a loser in life.
