Joe Paterno
Joe Paterno
Joseph Vincent "Joe" Paterno, sometimes referred to as "JoePa", was an American college football player, and later athletic director and coach. He was the head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions from 1966 to 2011. With 409 victories, Paterno was the most successful coach in NCAA FBS history. His career ended with his dismissal from the team in November, 2011 as a result of the Penn State child sex abuse scandal...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth21 December 1924
CountryUnited States of America
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.'
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.
You must relate athletic experiences to life.
When a kid plays football before he attends a class, something is wrong.
There's never been a greater game than football.
The kids that were the victims ... I think we all ought to say a prayer for them,
My name, I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone.
In hindsight, I wish I had done more.
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.
Sport is a product of human culture. America seems to need football at this state of our social development. When you get ninety million people watching a single game on television, it ... shows you that people need something to identify with.
We have to understand that if you are going to be really good, you can't make some little mistakes. When (quarterback) Michael Robinson got sacked and fumbled the ball (last Saturday against South Florida) without knowing there was a backside guy coming, we had a terrible job done by someone.
We came close to being an undefeated football team.
We didn't get the (defensive) lineup we thought we were going to get. It's a good thing that (Kelly) put it through, because he had to kick it.
You guys can pick on me all you want, but I don't pay any attention to you, because I don't have to. I don't give darn what you guys think, to be honest with you.