Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good read more

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football.

I feel that the progress I have made as a coach, as well as a person, is a direct result read more

I feel that the progress I have made as a coach, as well as a person, is a direct result of the growth that I have made through my Church callings. I had the opportunity to serve as a bishop in a campus ward while I was still an assistant coach. When I was appointed head football coach in 1972, I decided to approach my role as a coach much the same as I did as a bishop, delegating responsibility to my assistants, putting responsibility on the players for self-improvement in all aspects of their lives, and using personal interviews with players to try to give positive reinforcement and encouragement so that they might do their very best and reach their full potential, both on and off the field.

You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline. It helps if you have some read more

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

Current condition of the BYU football program? I think it's in good shape. We've got some good young players. We've read more

Current condition of the BYU football program? I think it's in good shape. We've got some good young players. We've had two or three pretty good recruiting years. We lost some players, obviously, that hurt us, but you always have turnover in college through attrition (graduation, transfers). That's the nature of the game.

I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat read more

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.

If you are worshipping false gods—such as football, baseball, gold, tennis, or money or technology or automobiles or houses or read more

If you are worshipping false gods—such as football, baseball, gold, tennis, or money or technology or automobiles or houses or gold or silver—and you can tell what a man worships by what he does on Sunday—repent and start worshipping the true and living God, the maker of heaven and earth and all things that in them are.

If we could get the public as involved and as informed about politics as they are about Monday Night Football, read more

If we could get the public as involved and as informed about politics as they are about Monday Night Football, we would not have as many problems. People have to get off their duffs and participate.

I feel an autumnal Saturday, no matter how beautiful, is wasted if it doesn't find me sitting in on a read more

I feel an autumnal Saturday, no matter how beautiful, is wasted if it doesn't find me sitting in on a football game.

Coming out of BYU's football spring, 1999, practice: We might have a chance to be pretty good.

Coming out of BYU's football spring, 1999, practice: We might have a chance to be pretty good.