Leave as little to chance as possible. Preparation is the key to success.

My theory with the auctions has been to try to make them like a party, like a social event. If people are having a good time, talking with their friends, they're much more likely to bid.

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.

Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.

The key to winning is poise under stress.

The test of a quarterback is where his team finishes.

A winner never whines.

By nature, an auction is kind of a wholesale beast anyway. You're buying second hand goods, even with the historical, antique or aesthetic value. You look to get the wholesale price and you hope for retail spikes periodically when you get two or three people in the audience that want the same thing.

I like Modernism. I grew up around these sort of eclectic, heavily carved, baroque, rococo, highly ornamented styles that were in my life from the time that I was a child until now in my business life. So I like clean, straight, minimalist lines.

Coaches who scrimmage all the time don't know what to practice.

You just never know what's around the next corner in life or business or anything.

We don't have mad cow disease. We probably never will have mad cow disease, and therefore, it's a non-problem in the United States.