"So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom."

"I think the defense had a little bit to do with that. When the ball got out in space, they got there quick."

"It's an extremely great class for us. This year's class builds on our previous two and has established a foundation for us to build championships."

"I am very excited about this class because we have guys that can contribute now with the young guys that now have experience after one year under their belt."

"It's not just another game, it's a huge game on our schedule. We'll measure our success as a football team against that game, and we always will."

"I firmly believe if we get that ball in there, it's a football game. I don't know if we were going to win, but it's a football game. ... We weren't the same team in the second half."

"You'll probably see him play three positions out there (today). That's something that's a positive for him. He's a football player, we just need to find him a role and allow him to grow into that role."

"It was very bad for our players. It had a tremendous impact on the game, huge. We're about to score, then they go 98 yards very quickly and it's 18-7 instead of us leading 14-12. I firmly believe that if we had gotten it in the end zone there it's a football game. I don't know if we would have won, but it's a game. Even at that, we were still in it at halftime. But we weren't the same team in the second half."

"He plays consistently. We've got to get all of our football team playing like that."

"Tony plays so hard and he is so smart. He is a winner who makes plays and has made himself a starter this spring."

"Tight end is a strength of this team and should be throughout this year, next year and the year after."

"There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth."

"Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect."

"Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort."

"There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person."

"The older I get, the more convinced I am that the space between people who are trying their best to understand each other is hallowed ground."

"We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are."

"I'm proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you have ever done"

"Kids can spot a phony a mile away."

"He certainly played well in the fall. He's a guy with a lot of ability - a big, strong guy."

"It was as tough an experience as I've had in coaching. It was one that we will remember."

"That's not an excuse. We've got to grow up in a hurry."

"This will be their first game in this type of environment. I'm sure they'll be a little wide-eyed, but hopefully we've learned our lesson in terms of young players and how they prepare."

"He has great eye-hand coordination. He's a big-body receiver who also played linebacker. He's just a great athlete, with great running ability after the catch. We're very, very excited to get him."

"Our guys have worked hard this spring and we have had good competition at a lot of positions. I have been pleased with our effort most of the time, yet I know we need to get better in a lot of areas, too. I am looking forward to who comes out ready to play and compete on Saturday, and who plays with toughness and who plays fast."

"I asked him about that. They wanted to make the commitment to play one or the other. I brought up the basketball issue, but there was no interest in doing that. Right now, from an academic point of view, he needs to concentrate on one sport."

"Our guys have worked hard this spring and we have had good competition at a lot of positions."

"I don't think our confidence was shaken at all, I think we came out in the second half prepared to play."

"They remind me of our Ohio State defense in 2002. Teams are not going to score on them. They don't give up big plays. They pressure the ball and force turnovers."

"Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world."

"There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it."

"Human relationships are primary in all of living. When the gusty winds blow and shake our lives, if we know that people care about us, we may bend with the wind ... but we won’t break."

"If your "trusted "and people will allow you to share their inner gardern...what better gift?"

"Imagining may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions."

"Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain."

"Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning...They have to play with what they know to be true in order to find out more, and then they can use what they learn in new forms of play."

"Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel. A facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal."

"Love begins with listening."

"Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying."

"Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated."

"In appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred."

"Parents who expect change in themselves as well as in their children, who accept it and find in it the joy as well as the pains ofgrowth, are likely to be the happiest and most confident parents."

"Real strength has to do with helping others."

"The best teacher in the world is someone who loves what he or she does, and just loves it in front of you."

"I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline."

"We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the diversity of others."

"If it's mentionable, it's manageable."

"We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears."

"Fame is a four-letter word. And like tape, or zoom, or face, or pain, or love, or life, what ultimately matters is what we do with it."

"Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now."