In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

I was a very average player and became a trainer in Germany with a special club.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

If you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate. The second Saturday in September, we’re going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team. Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Without sounding biased, 70 days of football is not enough. Even if Messi plays 70 days he cannot be in the national team. You need to play around the year to be in contention for the national team.

‚Pure experience‘ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

Politics have no relation to morals.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it’s the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

Life well spent is long.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

Well, they’re Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn’t dream of interrupting you at golf.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

Waking up early was the first example I noticed in the SEAL Teams in which discipline was really the difference between being good and being exceptional.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

What is Champions League level? I saw a lot of rubbish games at Champions League level.

I’m looking forward to the intensity of football and how the people live football in Liverpool. It’s a special club.

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

As you get older, you have more responsibilities; you have more commitments, more events, kids, you’re married now. You still have all the things that you’ve had, plus you just keep adding.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.