Success and excellence are not the same. Excellence grows within a person, is largely within that person's control, and its meaning lasts.… — Joe Paterno Copy Share Image
When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality. — Joe Paterno Copy Share Image
Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy. — Joe Paterno Copy Share Image
A hard-fought, well-fought, hairline-close game is as classical in sports as tragedy is in the theater. Victory is contained within defeat, and defeat is… — Joe Paterno Copy Share Image
“You're never as good as you think you are when you win; and you're never as bad as you feel when you lose.” — Joe Paterno Copy Share Image
I'm not as concerned about me. What's happened to me has been great. I got five great kids. Seventeen grandchildren. — Joe Paterno Copy Share Image
Those kinds of things all kind of pop into your head, and you try to rectify them by looking at it, making some changes… — Joe Paterno Copy Share Image
In every life, there have to be some shadows. Look at me. My life has been filled with sunshine. A beautiful and caring wife.… — Joe Paterno Copy Share Image
Don't just stand back and play the way you're coached. A great player must rise to the occasion and turn the game around on… — Joe Paterno Copy Share Image
I think we played a pretty good football game overall. I think we played as well as we could at this time of the… — Joe Paterno Copy Share Image
