Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Ditka

If things came easy, then everybody would be great at what they did, let's face it.

Bear Bryant

I think when it really hit me that I had to get out to keep the program from going down was after the Mississippi Southern game this year.

Don Baylor

Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.

Don Baylor

I know what I have to do and I plan to do it. It's a good time to get it done and get it behind me. It's treatable, so why not treat it now? My family will give me comfort but I have to do this alone.

Steve Spurrier

The first few years, throwing was very easy. The defenses weren't geared up for it. Then later the defenses got a lot better toward stooping the pass.

Pete Carroll

You can't get a big enough game for us.

Bill Cowher

The biggest concern I have is making sure we understand that we aren't going to pick up where we left off.

Bear Bryant

I want to go home while it's quiet around there and get my mail out the first thing. Then I'll help them in recruiting if I can.

Larry Bird

I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

Lou Holtz

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

John Wooden

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

John Wooden

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but what you should have accomplished with your ability.

George Halas

When they boo you, you know they mean you.

Maurice Cheeks

We all think that Andre is this veteran player, because he has played so many games in his first two seasons. We take for granted that he should be at another level, but he has to grow a little more.

Maurice Cheeks

When it got to a certain point I think the fatigue factor went out the window, because everyone was playing on adrenaline. I know that Chris was exhausted.

The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.

One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.

The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.

Bill Belichick

You know where I stand on that. Could I have been any further away from the play?

Dan Devine

No one comes into our house and pushes us around.

Don Shula

No other league has had labor peace for so long. Tagliabue has managed to keep the two sides together, and they've kept playing.

Don Nelson

If we're gonna win, we have to play up to and beyond our potential. We're capable of doing that.

John Heisman

Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

Nick Saban

Maybe we can create some problems and issues for teams by doing that.

Knute Rockne

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

Knute Rockne

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

Chuck Daly

I'm still totally involved. I watch most of the games on TV, I've done some consulting work for a number of teams, so I get to stay close to it.

Pete Carroll

The argument about the system is out there and that's probably good, ... We did what we could, impressing the people in the AP poll and the coaches who felt free to vote.

Geno Auriemma

Look at last year's tournament and see who did what.

Larry Brown

I think his best basketball is in front of him,

Mike Holmgren

We just changed some of our packages so it gets to be seen more. Plus, everybody knows that this could be my last year here so everybody is kind of paying attention to everything.

You just have to come up with something, because there really, really is no differentiation between the blacks and the whites here and the browns. ... Nobody gets preference in that regard.