I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.
You know, I've been attending so many banquets that I know what they're going to serve before I get there.
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.
I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, "Oh, well, there's another Saturday. " The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.
Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
Courage means being afraid to do something, but still doing it.
It was while I was studying philosophy that I came to understand. . . that it is no sign of moral or spiritual strength to believe that for which one has no evidence, neither a priori evidence as in math, nor a posteriori evidence as in science. . . . It's a violation almost immoral in its transgressiveness to shirk the responsibilities of rationality.
I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?
Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union
Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.