Jay Paterno Quotations

One of the things you don't plan for is to go into short yardage situations in the spring game, because you just go let everyone have fun.

He's going through the same thing I went through last year. I can empathize with him.

He could coach 20 more years. I mean, I'm not exaggerating.

You just ignore it. You know you're qualified. I know my father in my situation ... he's not going to hand me a job just because of who I am.

When people write about what college football is all about they should write about Michael Robinson. He's everything that's good about the game.

The thing I was really looking for in spring was, does he know where he's going with the ball, does he know why going there, and he really did. He's made great strides there.

I've been around Penn State my entire life, so I have a good perspective for its history. Forty years from now when they write about Michael Robinson, they'll write that he was the ultimate team player. That's all you need to know about him.

So we're walking and my dad is talking about his memories of Coach Bryant and I'm carrying my son. That was a real emotional day. It was really special.

A year ago if we run that, it's an 8-yard play. Instead, it's a game changer. We can do different things now. We have some flexibility.

I told you the end would feel like this. It feels pretty great, doesn't it?

It's not that we're better coaching; we are just executing better. When you add the right wrinkles and kids play better, it looks like you got a lot of things going on.

They both play with the same kind of anger, not anger, but an edge to them. They both want to be great, not good, great. They may make one or two mistakes, but then they buckle down and make sure they won't make the same mistake again.

Any time you get in front of a crowd and do things well and have some success, it means a lot to you.

Joe Paterno left this world with a clear conscience,

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.

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

A lot of young quarterbacks cringe, and they kind of go into a shell, and he didn't. Every time Joe got on him, he'd go hit the next three or four passes.

The kind of guy who comes around every 20 years.