Ara Parseghian Quotes

Football is so difficult to predict.

Every game, well most of them, come down to turnovers and the turnover battle.

Ball security is job security here.

Never bet on baseball.

Rushing the ball is all about ball control. If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.

The name of the game is 'kill the quarterback.' Every football team tries to knock the guy out of the game that's handling the ball.

In boxing, you don't know what's going to happen. In wrestling, it's already prearranged.

I cannot guarantee anything.

Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.

Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.

Any team, if you can rattle the quarterback you have an opportunity to win the game.

When you touch the ball 400 times per game, it's normal that you can lose the ball a couple of times.

It's important not to lose a ball. It's rare for the team to lose the ball. You have to be careful.

Turning the ball over is something you don't want to do as a quarterback.

I just like the ball in my hands whether I'm running it or catching it.

The industry is such - there is no guarantee that a show would work only because it is airing.

You have to be secure with the ball. You can't lose it.

There are no guarantees. If you spent money, it's no guarantee you win stuff.

Nothing in golf is certain, especially on the PGA Tour.

The worst team in baseball's history won only 55 games. The best team ever won 110 out of 160, so you're virtually guaranteed to win 1/3 of the time and lose 1/3 of the time. The difference is the 1/3 in the middle. You don't know what bucket the game you're playing falls into, so if you're smart, you'll fight like everything for all of them.

It's funny, but... you're sort of a moving target for fortune, and you never know when it will befall you.

It's hard to keep a play alive moment-to-moment, you know? But there's another part of it that I really love, which is that you never know.

It's a losers' game to try and guess, it really is.

To be enthusiastic about doing much with human nature is a foolish business indeed; and, throwing himself into his work as he was doing, and expecting so much from it, would not the tide ebb as strongly as it was flowing? It is a rash game this setting our hearts on any future beyond what we have our own selves control over. Things do not walk as we settle with ourselves they ought to walk, and to hope is almost the correlative of to be disappointed.

No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.