Joe Paterno Quotes - Page 2

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• I had a great bunch of kids. They all hung with us. The coaching staff hung with us. And we played tough every game. If you've got kids that want to play and react to you, it's fun. I'm having a good time.

  Joe Paterno

  Fun, Kids, Games

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• Right now I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do, 'cause I don't want to sit around on my backside all day. If I'm gonna do that I'll be a newspaper reporter.

  Joe Paterno

  Trying, Want, Causes

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• You can't have a great university without a great library.

  Joe Paterno

  Library, University

  "At Penn State, a Bitter Reckoning" by Michael Bérubé, www.nytimes.com. November 17, 2011.

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

  Joe Paterno

  Hurt, Humility, Poison

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• You're only as happy as your least happy child.

  Joe Paterno

  Children, Happy Children

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• In hindsight, I wish I had done more.

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  Wish, Done, Hindsight

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• There's never been a greater game than football.

  Joe Paterno

  Football, Games, Greater

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• You must relate athletic experiences to life.

  Joe Paterno

  Nfl, Athletic, Relate

  Speech to high school coaches, Hershey, Pennsylvania, www.today.com. February 5, 1993.

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• I stayed on the track I wanted to stay on. I don’t think I deviated from what I’m all about and what I thought was important. Whether you want to call that a legacy, or whatever you want to call it.

  Joe Paterno

  Thinking, Track, Important

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

  Joe Paterno

  Sports, Confidence, Football

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• SMU: 'It's unbelievable to think that kind of corruption came right from the top of the power structure. The NCAA did what it had to do' in canceling SMU's 1988 football season.

  Joe Paterno

  Football, Thinking, Ncaa

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• Everybody likes to win. It sure beats the devil out of losing.

  Joe Paterno

  Winning, Devil, Likes

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• Connfidence, excellence becomes a reality.

  Joe Paterno

  Reality, Excellence

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• When a kid plays football before he attends a class, something is wrong.

  Joe Paterno

  Football, Kids, Class

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• I still haven't gotten that little something out of my system that I'm still not a kid going to a football game. I'm excited.

  Joe Paterno

  Football, Kids, Games

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• There has to be some self-denial.

  Joe Paterno

  Self, Denial, Self-denial

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• Some things I thought were important for a young man to know.

  Joe Paterno

  Men, Important, Young

  "Ignorance no excuse for Joe Paterno" by Gene Wojciechowski, www.espn.com. January 15, 2012.

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• All coaches are thinking men, or else they wouldn't survive.

  Joe Paterno

  Men, Thinking, Thinking Man

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• My father said about money: 'You have to have some. But you don't have to have all of it. Just be honest with yourself.'

  Joe Paterno

  Father, Honest, Said

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• The kids that were the victims ... I think we all ought to say a prayer for them.

  Joe Paterno

  Prayer, Kids, Thinking

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