Joe Paterno Quotes

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My thing was play as hard as you can, don't be stupid, pay attention to details, and have enough guts in the clutch that you're not afraid to make a play.

Joe Paterno
They ask me what I'd like written about me when I'm gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach.

Joe Paterno
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
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
You know, [Mike McQueary] didn't want to get specific. And to be frank with you I don't know that it would have done any good, because I never heard of, of, rape and a man. So I just did what I thought was best. I talked to people that I thought would be, if there was a problem, that would be following up on it.

Joe Paterno
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.

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I'm not 31 years old trying to prove something to anybody. I know where I am.

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I didn't know exactly how to handle [the report of Jerry Sandusky's child abuse] and I was afraid to do something that might jeopardize what the university procedure was. So I backed away and turned it over to some other people, people I thought would have a little more expertise than I did. It didn't work out that way.

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The bigger the problem the guy was, the more I enjoyed it when we had success.

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

Joe Paterno