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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“Parenting is no sport for perfectionists.”

“It is naive to think that sport is above politics, that any kind of level playing field exists, or that sport allows the world to put its problems on hold.”

“Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.”