Quotations

POPisms:

"You never know what the day will bring, you have to be prepared." (On why he woke up, showered and dressed the same time every morning- work or not).

"I'm just happy I woke up today." (When asked what he was doing today)

Nature:

"The woods are lovely dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep." ~ Robert Frost

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."

"Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb, brooks to wade in, water lilies, woodchucks, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hay fields, pine cones, snakes, huckleberries, and hornets, and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of his education"

“Nature is not a place to visit, it is home.” ~Gary Snyder

“Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.”

“The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.” ~Claude Monet

“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” ~Frank Lloyd Wright

Service:

"Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve.... You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love." ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do."

"You will never stand as tall as when you kneel to help a child."

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." Albert Camus

Life. Faith. Strength.

"When nothing is sure, everything is possible."

"Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark."

"Anger, fear, aggression- the Dark Side are they. Once you start down the Dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny." ~Master Yoda

“The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.”

"You can't get to Heaven on the Frankford El, Cause the Frankford El goes straight to Frankford. It's just another stop til I find my destination...And I may leave this place tomorrow, But my soul is here to stay, In the town that rocked the nation, Philadelphia, PA..."

"My mom let me play in the mud, even though I was a girl."

"Somewhere behind the athlete you've become, the hours of practice, the coaches who pushed you, the teammates who believe in you, and the fans who cheer for you is the little girl who took that first perfect shot. The little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back, PLAY FOR HER.” Mia Hamm

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not VICTORY nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure..."

"Most of our life is a series of images. They pass us by like towns on the highway. But sometimes, a moment stuns us as it happens. And we know that this instant is more than fleeting image. We know that this moment, every part of it, will live on forever." OTH

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do." Benjamin Franklin

"If it doesn't make sense, it's not true." Judge Judy

 

The Paterno Way:

"Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good." 

"Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy." 

“When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.”

“Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.” 

“Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.” 

“It’s the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back.” 

“Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.” 

“Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.” 

“Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.” 

“The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.”

“The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.” 

“When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.” 

“You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.” 

“You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.” 

"If I had to do it over again, I'd probably play the game the same way.

"People say to me, 'Why don't you give it up?' ...I don't want to miss anything.

"I'm not going to get carried away with one win. I'm pleased, but this isn't the end of the road."

"Those kinds of things all kind of pop into your head, and you try to rectify them by looking at it, making some changes and stressing certain things in practice, but there's no hard and fast rule to get it done."

"Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy."

"Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks."

"When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality."

"Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good."