"Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career"

"In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are"

"We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival"

"The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again"

"Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football"

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working"

"Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation"

"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model"

"You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn't mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It's just like a football season. Everything's not going to go perfect"

"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening"

"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer"