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.
You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.
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.
There's never been a greater game than football.
You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
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.
When a kid plays football before he attends a class, something is wrong.
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.
