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Joe Paterno Quotes

«I probably had more confidence that we were close than any of you guys did and in fact some of the people in the administration. I had a good feeling about the team, I really did.»
«Everybody likes to win. It sure beats the devil out of losing.»
«Somebody mentioned to me that this time last year we were 0-6 in the Big Ten. I was a lot more confident than any of you or, for that matter, some of the administration.»
«So I don't know how long I can go, ... I don't sit here and say I'm going to coach one more year, two more years. I'm going to coach until I wake up some morning and say 'I've had enough', or the good Lord says 'Stay down, you're down,' and right now that hasn't happened.»
«I can run around and yell at people, scream at people. Everything I could do when I was a younger coach.»
«The Big Ten is a little bit of a disadvantage because we have so many people who are so good,»
«I think we ought to have some sort of a playoff, and then you'd have three or four Big Ten teams in there for a playoff, ... But there again, I can't control some of that stuff. If I could, I would.»
«Later on as we went along, there were other guys in the league that talked to me about how glad that they were that we were in the league. Some of them, obviously, no. There are still some people, I think, who wonder why we are in the league.»
«I've been around a lot of good football teams and I've been in a lot of locker rooms where we've felt pretty good about what we had done. The kids are the ones that are all fired up and they should be, because they went though all that junk -- the losing years, everyone doubting them and they got together and went to work. They're the guys that should be happy.»
«They took it. Nobody pouted. The captains got them together and all's well that ends well.»