Coach quotes

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

I am the Fred Astaire of karate.

A boy shows how much he wants to play in the spring, when it's tough, and during two a days, when it's hot and tough.

A head coach is guided by this main objective: dig, claw, wheedle, coax that fanatical effort out of the players. You want them to play every Saturday as if they were planting the flag on Iwo Jima.

I don't count on the boy who waits till October, when it's cool and fun, then decides he wants to play.

Old ugly is better than old nothin'

All Senators should aspire to be role models, and to the extent that people who have led the American dream, modern-day Horatio Algers stories should be an added plus to all their intellect, capabilities, and experiences.

Every day you waste is one you can never make up.

Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little.