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When you want to know what Penn State is, and when you want to know what 'We Are' means, come to THON. — Jay Paterno

Everybody likes to win. It sure beats the devil out of losing. — Joe Paterno

Today, you've got a decision to make. You're gonna get better or you're gonna get worse, but you're not gonna stay the same. Which will it be? — Joe Paterno

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good. — Joe Paterno

We shall act with good intentions, but at times we will be wrong. When we are, let us admit it and try to right the situation. — Joe Paterno

I really enjoyed coaching. — Joe Paterno

We have to realize a kid will love us one day and hate us the next. That cannot change who we are and what we are about. — Joe Paterno

Act like you expect to get into the end zone. — Joe Paterno

It doesn't matter what people think of me. I've lived my life. — Joe Paterno

Success is best measured by the achiever. — Joe Paterno

The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner. — Joe Paterno

The name on the front of the jersey is what really matters, not the name on the back. — Joe Paterno

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional. — Joe Paterno

You can't have a great university without a great library. — Joe Paterno

I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley. — Leslie Fiedler

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

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital. — Joe Paterno

Joe Paterno was a dictator. — Rodney Erickson

We can never be like it was at Penn State with Joe Paterno. That was an anomaly in an of itself. — James Brown

Keep hustling, something good will happen, — Joe Paterno

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

When a kid plays football games before he attends a class, something is wrong. — Joe Paterno

My name, I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone. — Joe Paterno

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things. — Joe Paterno

Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back. — Joe Paterno

Take away what we love, wed all be Joe Paterno. — Joe Budden

Joe Paterno left this world with a clear conscience, — Jay Paterno

I've had a wonderful experience here at Penn State. — Joe Paterno

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 his own. — Joe Paterno

All coaches are thinking men, or else they wouldn't survive. — Joe Paterno

You can't be a part-time man of principle. — John Amaechi

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy. — Joe Paterno

The kids that were the victims ... I think we all ought to say a prayer for them, — Joe Paterno

Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it. — Joe Paterno

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks. — Joe Paterno

From now on, anyone raped at Penn State should just tell Joe Paterno's statue. It couldn't help you any less than the real Joe would have. — Jim Norton

You must relate athletic experiences to life. — Joe Paterno

There's never been a greater game than football. — Joe Paterno

There has to be some self-denial. — Joe Paterno

I'm not as concerned about me. What's happened to me has been great. I got five great kids. Seventeen grandchildren. — Joe Paterno

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality. — Joe Paterno

If I had to do it over again, I'd probably play the game the same way. — Joe Paterno

If you live to be 100 years old, what you've done here for the last two days, weeks, monthswhat you've done here will echo in eternity. — Jay Paterno

Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno? — Pete Rose

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

We play with enthusiasm and recklessness. We aren't afraid to lose. If we win, great; but win or lose, it is the competition that gives us pleasure. — Joe Paterno

Joe Paterno was a well-educated man, and he was also a man from a different time. — Joe Posnanski