"I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage"

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

"I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming"

"Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool"

"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society"

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

"Football kicks you in the teeth"

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

"Swimming isn't everything, winning is"

"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 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"