Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.
Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.
It doesn't matter what people think of me. I've lived my life.
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.
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.
The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.
Coaches have got to be given rank within the university so that you can't fire a coach unless you go through an academic committee, just as you would with a professor. If coaches are to have any stability and security, they need to be treated like an English professor.
My thing was play as hard as you can, don't be stupid, pay attention to details, and have enough guts in the clutch that you're not afraid to make a play. Some things I thought were important for a young man to know.
You must relate athletic experiences to life.
Mostly I want to talk positive; I wanna talk about a bunch of great kids that I coached and made me look good and the university that I've seen grow from a cow college, which it was, only 12,000 people, and when I came here, we weren't at Pennsylvania State University, we were at Penn State College.
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.
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've had a wonderful experience here at Penn State.
You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
